Pop Art

Developed in Britain and the United States in the 1950s and derived from popular art forms eg advertising and comic books

Op Art

‘Optical Art’ created by perceptual abstraction to create illusion.  Examples include Vasarely and Bridget Riley.  Often artwork is created by using a highly limited palate of colours eg black and white.

Plop Art

A pejorative word for art used in public areas such as large sculptures and the paintings that appear to have been ‘plopped’ into the location without thought or reason.