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Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid - 1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States . Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain , and Larry Rivers , Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns among others in the United States . Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as ___MASK55___ and news . In pop art , material is sometimes visually removed from its known context , isolated , and / or combined with unrelated material . Larry Rivers ( August 17 , 1923  August 14 , 2002 ) was an American ___MASK59___ , ___MASK16___ , filmmaker and occasional actor . Rivers resided and maintained studios in New York City , Southampton , Long Island , and Zihuatanejo , Mexico . Cristina Vergano ( born 1960 ) is a fine ___MASK59___ born and raised in Italy , presently living and working in New York City . Her classical , academic painting style offsets the highly imaginative content of her work . A playful , surreal vein runs through the ___MASK59___ ' s work , along with a subtle feminist concern and a wink to Pop art . Vergano ' s paintings are populated with human - animal hybrid creatures , Muslim women in lingerie , flying saucers , word games , and amused references to Ingres , Picasso , Lichtenstein , and other masters , both old and modern . Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of ideas , perspectives , attitudes , images , and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture , especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century . Heavily influenced by mass media , this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society . The most common pop culture categories are : ___MASK56___ ( movies , music , television , games ), sports , news ( as in people / places in news ), politics , fashion / clothes , technology , and slang . Popular culture has a way of influencing an individual ' s attitudes towards certain topics . A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land . Port locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water , for ___MASK13___ demand , and for shelter from wind and waves . Ports with deeper water are rarer , but can handle larger ships . Since ports throughout history handled every kind of traffic , support and storage facilities vary widely , may extend for miles , and dominate the local economy . Some ports have an important ___MASK19___ role . In European ___MASK85___ traditions , fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty , distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function , such as pottery or most metalwork . The headquarters of the United Nations is a complex in New York City designed by Brazilian ___MASK98___ Oscar Niemeyer . The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952 . It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan , on spacious grounds overlooking the East River . Its borders are First Avenue on the west , East 42nd Street to the south , East 48th Street on the north and the East River to the east . The term " Turtle Bay " is occasionally used as a metonym for the UN headquarters or for the United Nations as a whole . Jasper Johns ( born May 15 , 1930 ) is an American ___MASK52___ , sculptor and printmaker associated with Abstract expressionism , Neo - Dada , and Pop art . The City of New York , often called New York City or simply New York , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated ___MASK66___ city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of New York , the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , ___MASK89___ , technology , education , and ___MASK56___ , its fast pace defining the term " New York minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . Headquarters ( HQ ) denotes the location where most , if not all , of the important functions of an organization are coordinated . In the United States , the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking full responsibility for managing all business activities . In the UK , the term head office is most commonly used for the HQs of large corporations . The term is also used regarding ___MASK19___ organizations . ___MASK55___ is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored , nonpersonal message to promote or sell a product , service or idea . Sponsors of ___MASK55___ are often businesses who wish to promote their products or services . ___MASK55___ is differentiated from ___MASK41___ in that an advertiser usually pays for and has control over the message . It is differentiated from personal selling in that the message is nonpersonal , i . e ., not directed to a particular individual . ___MASK55___ is communicated through various mass media , including old media such as newspapers , magazines , ___MASK60___ , ___MASK68___ , outdoor ___MASK55___ or direct mail ; or new media such as search results , blogs , websites or text messages . The actual presentation of the message in a medium is referred to as an advertisement or " ad ". Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi ( 7 March 1924  22 April 2005 ) was a Scottish ___MASK49___ and ___MASK59___ . He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art . ___MASK89___ comprises " creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge , including knowledge of humans , culture and society , and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications ." It is used to establish or confirm facts , reaffirm the results of previous work , solve new or existing problems , support theorems , or develop new theories . A ___MASK89___ project may also be an expansion on past work in the field . ___MASK89___ projects can be used to develop further knowledge on a topic , or in the example of a school ___MASK89___ project , they can be used to further a student ' s ___MASK89___ prowess to prepare them for future jobs or reports . To test the validity of instruments , procedures , or experiments , ___MASK89___ may replicate elements of ___MASK33___ projects or the project as a whole . The primary purposes of basic ___MASK89___ ( as opposed to applied ___MASK89___ ) are documentation , discovery , interpretation , or the ___MASK89___ and development ( R & D ) of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge . Approaches to ___MASK89___ depend on epistemologies , which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences . There are several forms of ___MASK89___ : scientific , humanities , artistic , economic , social , business , marketing , practitioner ___MASK89___ , life , technological , etc . Milton Ernest " Robert " Rauschenberg ( October 22 , 1925  May 12 , 2008 ) was an American ___MASK52___ and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the pop art movement . Rauschenberg is well known for his " Combines " of the 1950s , in which non - traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations . Rauschenberg was both a ___MASK52___ and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both , but he also worked with photography , printmaking , papermaking , and performance . He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993 . He became the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts in 1995 in recognition of his more than 40 years of fruitful artmaking .