BBC TV - www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc - 2003
Pop Art

Pop art exploded on to the scene in the fifties and sixties. The world was changing and so were people's ideas about art.

Pop artists wanted to bring life and art closer together, so they drew normal objects that were important to ordinary people. Burgers, sweets and cans of pop - all your fave stuff was turned into pop-tastic masterpieces.

Lots of celebs got in on the action too. While Warhol painted Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley in New York, Peter Blake was giving Brigitte Bardot and the Beatles the pop treatment in London.

Pop art is still all around us. Illustrators like Lawrence Zeegen are pushing the art form forward. Check out one of his most recent art works (above).

Pop art just keeps popping up all over the place.