Pop art was a visual art movement that emerged in the late 1950s and flourished in the 1960s. It focused on materiality and mass production, often incorporating everyday objects from popular culture into artwork.
Pop art was the first movement to use the imagery of popular culture and challenge traditional notions of high art. It quickly gained popularity and spawned a number of other movements that followed.
One of the movements that followed was Minimalism, which emerged in the late 1960s. This style of art rejected traditional notions of beauty and focused on simplicity and minimalism as its main principles.
Minimalist works often featured geometric shapes, bright colors, and repetition to create a sense of unity. Unlike Pop Art, Minimalism did not rely on images from popular culture but instead sought to create abstract works that were stripped down to their essential elements.
In the 1970s, Conceptual Art emerged as a reaction to both Pop Art and Minimalism. This style of art focused on ideas rather than physical objects or aesthetically pleasing images. It generally explored themes such as politics, philosophy, language, and perception through performance-based works or installations.
In the late 1970s another movement known as Postmodernism began to gain traction. This style largely rejected modernist ideals such as structure, order, logic, and clarity in favor of diversity and complexity in both subject matter and mediums used for expression. Postmodernist works often incorporated irony, parody, pastiche, collage, appropriation, etc., into their work.
Throughout the 1980s – 1990s several other movements began to form as reactions or extensions of previous movements such as Neo-expressionism (a reaction to Conceptual Art), Neo-pop (a reaction to Pop Art), Digital Art (an extension of Postmodernism), Street Art (a combination of graffiti & street culture with elements from modern & traditional forms) etc..
Conclusion:
Pop art was a revolutionary movement that challenged traditional notions of high art by incorporating everyday objects from popular culture into artwork. Its influence spawned several other movements such as Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Postmodernism and many more throughout the decades which allowed for further exploration into what constitutes ‘art’ today.