The Pop Art movement began gaining prominence in the mid-1950s and reached its most significant popularity during the 1960s. Pop Art integrated imagery from popular culture along with mass media themes and advertising elements to dissolve the traditional separation between elite art forms and daily existence. Pop Art artists used bright colors and precise lines along with repeated elements to represent mass production and consumer culture during post-war America and Britain. Andy Warhol with his Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe portraits and Roy Lichtenstein with his comic strip-inspired "Whaam!" work stand among the most significant figures in Pop Art. Claes Oldenburg gained recognition for his large-scale sculptures of mundane objects such as "Giant BLT." The Pop Art movement transformed artistic standards by questioning accepted definitions of art while promoting ordinary objects and imagery to high cultural status. Pop Art used popular culture elements to make art more approachable and understandable to a wider public. Pop Art both mirrored its consumer-focused era and offered a critique of art becoming a commodity while highlighting mass media's extensive impact on modern culture. Pop Art maintains its status as an essential influence in modern art while it continues to motivate both artists and audiences through its distinct visual impact and pertinent social commentary.