Pop Art started in mid 1950s and ended in early 1970s. Some important artists include Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg. Pop Art celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, rather than "high art" themes of morality, mythology and classic history. In this way, the subject matter became far from traditional, and in this way the elevated popular culture to the level of fine art. It aimed to blur the line between "high" art and "low" culture. 

Pop Art is the most recognisable of modern art. Maybe one of the most recognisable characteristics of pop art, is the concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source. 

While Abstract Expressionists searched for trauma in the soul, Pop artists searched for the same trauma in the mediated world of advertising, cartoons, and popular imagery at large. Perhaps a more accurate thing to say is that pop artists were the first to recognise that there is no unmediated access to anything, be it the soul, natural world or the built environment. Pop artists believed that everything was interconnected, to which they sought to make those connections in their artworks. 

Some say Pop art is emotionally removed or "coolly" ambivalent, but in reality they just embraced the post-WWII manufacturing and media boom. 

Pop artists began their careers in commercial art. Take for example Andy Warhol, he was a successful magazine illustrator and a graphic designer. Ed Ruscha was also a graphic designer and James Rosenquist started out as a billboard painter. 

Campbell's Soup Cans were never meant to be celebrated for their form or composition style, like the abstractionists did. Warhol took universally recognisable imagery and depicted it as a mass-produced item, within a fine art context. In this Warhol was providing commentary on how people have come to perceive these things in modern times: commodities to be bought and sold, identifiable with just one single glance. The first series was hand-painted, but Warhol soon switched to screen-printing, favouring the mechanical technique for his mass culture imagery. (The Art Story,n.d.).

100 canvases of Campbell's Soup Cans made up his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in LA and immediately put Andy on the map, forever changing the face and content of modern art. (The Art Story, n.d.). 

Sandra Chevrier's paintings are brought to life by combining iconic comic book characters with strong brushwork. These stunning illustrations' real impact is the refreshing use of collage techniques mixed with the multicoloured comic art. (Patternbank, 2013).