Introduction The growth of art has been characterized by the emergence of various movements, proponents of which have fuelled the growth of the industry, through provision of pieces that attract the interest of certain groups of society. This essay seeks to analyze the movement known as Pop Art. To this end, a brief history of the movement shall be given, before the discussion delves into the themes and styles that characterize the movement, as well as the legacies that the movement is associated with. Art Research, like any other topical research only attains academic credibility once it provides reference to other written works, as well as provides detailed exemplification of ideas emerging in the discussion. In this regard, the research for the current essay shall be guided by various literature, on the topic. These include books, journals and published articles, collected from both physical and online libraries. By the end of the discussion, the essay aims to comprehensively cover the subject of pop art, in such a way that readers are able to narrate the history and origins of the art form, list a number of artists associated with the movement as well as explain the themes and styles they used to pass their message across. The origins of pop art The phrase Pop Art can be traced to art critic Lawrence Alloway, in 1958, in his evaluation of the exhibition titled This is Tomorrow (Tansey, 1980, p.113). Studying the works of Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and David Hockney, Alloway pointed out that there was a uniquely new approach to their styles, which he linked to the popular art that had taken prominence in American mass media (McCarthy, 2002, p.7). As a result the form of art was for a while referred to as popular art, much later adopting the shortened form of the word popular, to simply remain as pop art. Pop art is an art movement that sprung up in the 1950s in the United Kingdom and the United States. This is form of art set itself apart from the traditional forms of art by the usage of lifted images from areas of popular culture including advertisements (Tansey, 1980, p.76). The material used in this form of art is more often than not taken from its usual context and paired up with other material, which is sometimes unrelated, in order to pass a specific message. Because of this apparent incongruence, most pieces of pop art are not generally easily comprehensible. As such, sometimes pop-art may not just sell as a piece of visually-appealing art, but as a package of a given message (McCarthy, 2002 p.77). This form of art tends try and express certain elements of a particular culture, and it distinctively uses irony to get this message across. Another key distinction of pop art from most other forms of art is the utilization of mechanical methods of reproduction and rendering (Jurgen, 2009, p. 96). The origins of pop art were characterized by uniquely specific characteristics, depending on the region. In the United States for example, it developed as a form of abstract expressionism, which at the same time drew from hard-edged composition to deliver a message. In this regard, a lot of irony and parody was put into use in the development of pieces. In Britain, the development of pop-art took an academic stance and it used irony to try and illustrate h