Pop art gets its name from its inspiration: popular culture. Explain by giving examples of how pop artists turned the mass culture of the 1950s into art.

A good example of this would actually be the King himself, Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley invented a new style of dancing, new sounding music, and the masses loved it. Music and dancing is an art, and Elvis kinda made rock and roll into what it is today. Hope this helps!

Pop artists turned the popular mass culture of the 1950s into art by using images from popular culture for inspiration. The major sources of inspiration were films, comic books, celebrities, and mass-produced objects.

They did this by clear and direct representation of these symbols to make them more relatable to the public, rather than using them in an abstract manner. A good example of this is Andy Warhol’s repetitive representations of soup cans, cola bottles, and celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe.

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