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===Proto-pop===
Although both British and American pop art began during the 1950s, [[Marcel Duchamp]] and others in Europe like [[Francis Picabia]] and [[Man Ray]] predate the movement; in addition there were some earlier American ''proto-pop'' origins which utilized "as found" cultural objects.<ref name="iha">Piper, David. ''The Illustrated History of Art'', {{ISBN|0-7537-0179-0}}, p486-487.</ref> During the 1920s, American artists [[Patrick Henry Bruce]], [[Gerald Murphy]], [[Charles Demuth]] and [[Stuart Davis (painter)|Stuart Davis]] created paintings that contained pop culture imagery (mundane objects culled from American commercial products and advertising design), almost "prefiguring" the pop art movement.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2007/08/06/070806craw_artworld_schjeldahl |title=Modern Love |magazine=The New Yorker |date=2007-08-06 |access-date=2015-12-30}}</ref><ref>Wayne Craven, ''American Art: History and .'' p.464.</ref>