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noun
A genre of art that uses elements of popular culture, often using techniques from commercial art and advertising.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
a school of art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and became prevalent in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s; it imitated the techniques of commercial art (as the soup cans of Andy Warhol) and the styles of popular culture and the mass media
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: artistic movement, art movement
History
From op art and abbreviation of popular, attributed to English art critic Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990).
Across languages
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