Editing 1950s (section)

===Art movements===
In the early 1950s [[abstract expressionism]] and artists [[Jackson Pollock]] and [[Willem de Kooning]] were enormously influential. However, by the late 1950s [[Color Field]] painting and [[Barnett Newman]] and [[Mark Rothko]]'s paintings became more in focus to the next generation.

[[Pop art]] used the [[iconography]] of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. With its roots in [[dadaism]], it started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some European artists started to make the symbols and products of the world of [[advertising]] and [[propaganda]] the main subject of their artistic work. This return of [[figurative art]], in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II was dominated by Great Britain until the early 1960s when [[Andy Warhol]], the most known artist of this movement began to show Pop Art in galleries in the United States.