pop art

noun

variants often Pop Art

: art in which commonplace objects (such as road signs, hamburgers, comic strips, or soup cans) are used as subject matter and are often physically incorporated in the work

pop artist noun

often Pop artist

Examples of pop art in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are even some 19th-century American paintings as well as some interesting modern pop art. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026

The Pop Spot Bar & Grill is dishing up creative dishes along with flashy pop art in East Memphis. —Erin Munz, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 21 Mar. 2026

For more than 50 years, Tomkins completed dispatches from the transformative art scene of the 1960s and beyond, whether individuals such as Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg or such movements as pop art, conceptual art and minimalism. —ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026

Sir Ian McKellen stars as a retired pop art sensation who is now the target of a greedy inheritance plot to forge and complete his eight unfinished canvases. —Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for pop art

• apart
• depart
• flowchart
• forepart
• impart
• pushcart
• rampart
• redstart
• restart
• subpart
• sweetheart
• upstart