Word.ws English Dictionary

pop art

pop art noun: a genre of art that uses elements of popular culture, often using techniques from commercial art and advertising.

Noun

pop art (uncountable)

  1. A genre of art that uses elements of popular culture, often using techniques from commercial art and advertising.
    • Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn.1978, Don DeLillo, Running Dog, New York: Knopf, page 148

pop art meaning in Thai and Vietnamese

pop art in Thai

genre of art that uses elements of popular culture
ศิลปะประชานิยม

pop art in Vietnamese

genre of art that uses elements of popular culture
pop art

Origin of pop art

From op art and abbreviation of popular, attributed to English art critic Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990).

Questions about pop art

What does pop art mean?
Pop art means a genre of art that uses elements of popular culture, often using techniques from commercial art and advertising.
What is pop art in Thai?
Pop art in Thai is ศิลปะประชานิยม. See Pop art meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is pop art?
Pop art is a noun.

Words near pop art in the dictionary

  1. pop a blood vessel
  2. pop a cap in someone's arse
  3. pop a cap in someone's ass
  4. pop a deuce
  5. pop a squat
  6. pop art
  7. pop chart
  8. pop charts
  9. pop culture
  10. pop cultures
  11. pop down

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pop art (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pop art.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pop_art. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.