Pop art is an art movement in which ordinary objects—such as comic books, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers—are used as subjects and are often physically incorporated into the work. Pop art was an art movement that emerged in England and America in the late 1950s and 1960s. The name "Pop art" was given to it by British art critic Lawrence Alloway. By using this term, he referred to the ordinariness of the visual elements used in the paintings and sculptures of this movement.

A distinctive feature of pop art artists is their indiscriminate depiction of all aspects of popular culture, which has a strong influence on contemporary life. The visual elements they use are taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and all forms of advertising. These visual elements are shown in a precise and objective manner, without any praise or criticism, with great directness and using commercial techniques used by the media from which they were borrowed.

Pop art was an extension of the Dada movement, a nihilistic movement in the 1920s that mocked the seriousness of Parisian art at the time and the broader political and cultural situation that had brought war to Europe. Marcel Duchamp, the pioneer of the Dada movement in the United States, who sought to narrow the gap between art and life by glorifying the mass-produced objects of his time, was the most influential figure in the development of Pop art. Other 20th-century artists who influenced Pop art were Stuart Davis, Gerard Murphy, and Fernand Léger. All of these artists depicted mass production and the commercial materials of the industrial machine age in their paintings. The direct forerunners of the Pop artists were the American artists Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, and Robert Rauschenberg. In the 1950s, these artists painted flags, beer cans, and other similar objects, albeit with a painterly and expressive technique.