During which years did Pop art become prominent in the United States?

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Five Andy Warhol paintings of Campbell's soup cans, each labeled with a different soup variety, displayed in a row on a white wall at Museumsquartier in Vienna. — Pop art *Campbell's Soup Cans*, polymer paint on canvas by Andy Warhol, 1962; a selection of five on display in the Museumsquartier, Vienna.

Pop art in the United States became prominent as a distinct movement primarily between 1962 and 1964.12

While the movement's arrival was signaled earlier by the assemblages of artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in the 1950s, as well as the emergence of Happenings around 1961, it reached its characteristic, brash ethos during the early 1960s. By the mid-1960s, the movement was well-established, with artists like Claes Oldenburg producing his signature soft sculptures and Andy Warhol creating iconic works that reflected the consumer culture of the era.12