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In the U.S., artists in the mid-1950s began to create a new style of art, strongly influenced by Dada and its pressurestrengthobservationemphasis emphasis on appropriation and everyday objects. Artists increasingly worked with collage, consumer products, and a healthy dose of irony. Jasper Johns re-imagined iconic imagerywordinformationpicturesque imagery like the American flag; Robert Rauschenberg employed silk-screen printings and found objects; and Larry Rivers used images of mass-produced goods. These three are considered to be the membersforerunnersprecedentedleaders forerunners of American Pop.