Pop art John-Moores-Exhibition in Liverpool in the same year. Apple and Hockney traveled together to New York during the Royal College's 1961 summer break, which is when Apple first made contact with Andy Warhol – both later moved to the United States and Apple became involved with the New York pop art scene. Although pop art began in the early 1950s, in America it was given its greatest impetus during the 1960s. The term "pop art" was officially introduced in December 1962; the occasion was a "Symposium on Pop Art" organized by the Museum of Modern Art. By this time, American advertising
Walter Robinson (artist) Walter Robinson (artist) Walter Robinson (born 1950) is a New York-based artist and art critic. He has been called a "neo-Pop" painter, as well as a member of the 1980s "Picture Generation." Robinson was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and raised in Tulsa. He moved to New York to attend Columbia University in 1968. Subsequently, he graduated from the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1973. He lived in SoHo in the 1970s and the Lower East Side in the 1980s and '90s, and currently has a studio in Long Island City in Queens. Robinson is a postmodern painter whose work features