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What is the main characteristic of Pop Art as a reaction to Abstract Expressionism?

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In the United States, pop art was a response by artists; it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art. They used impersonal, mundane reality, irony, and parody to "defuse" the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of abstract expressionism.
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