>>130193573Yes and no.
Pop art was a movement in art in the mid-20th century, it was a reaction against abstract impressionism (the random paint on canvas you associate with modern art). It was largely inspired by American popular culture, often utilizing celebrities, advertisements, comic books, consumer goods, fast food, machine printing, mass production, and bright colors.
Roy Lichtenstein is a specific pop artist, controversial because he would just make blown up comic pages, often with little to no changes and zero credit to the original artists.
So yes and no. You’re thinking of Roy Lichtenstein, and he is a pop artist, but pop art was more than that.
Batman is pop art tv show. The big pop art features of it are it’s painstaking reproduction of comic book conventions into another medium. The melodramatic narration, the bright colors, the labels everywhere, the costumes, and the inclusion of onomatopoeic sound effects during fight scenes, it’s very different from both children’s adventure shows (like Lone Ranger or The Adventures of Superman) and adult action shows (I Spy, Mission Impossible, or The Man From UNCLE) running at the time
