Exit Dada, enter Pop art. For a radically different postwar era, in came a new art form.This post war movement was launched in England in the late 1950s and burst into America via the illustrator Andy Warhol. His ironic portraits of Campbell's Soup cans and Brillo boxes gave Warhol a huge name in the art world. He became even more recognized than Picasso. Pop Art often commented upon America's insatiable consummerism and the emptiness it strove to conceal.
I think he laughed all the way to the bank, but what do I know?