A movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in [[London]] and late 1950s in [[New York|New York City]], drawing imagery from mass media, advertising, comic books, and consumer culture. Key figures include [[Andy Warhol]]—whose [[Campbell's Soup Cans - Andy Warhol (1962)|Campbell's Soup Cans]] became an emblem of the movement's embrace of consumer imagery—[[Roy Lichtenstein]], [[Jasper Johns]], and [[Richard Hamilton]]. It reacted against the seriousness and inward focus of [[Abstract Expressionism]], embracing popular culture with irony and blurring the boundary between "high" and "low" art.