Short answers, pulled from the story.
Pop art emerged in the mid-1950s after Eduardo Paolozzi projected a collage showing a revolver firing at a woman's head during 1952. This single slide appeared inside his lecture series called Bunk! which he had assembled while living in Paris between 1947 and 1949.
Andy Warhol held his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles during July 1962 at Irving Blum's Ferus Gallery. He displayed thirty-two paintings of Campbell soup cans, one for every flavor available at the time.
Nouveau réalisme emerged as an artistic movement founded in France during 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany and artist Yves Klein. They signed a joint declaration on October twenty-seven 1960 inside Yves Klein's workshop with nine participants including Arman, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and others.
Roy Lichtenstein produced hard-edged compositions using oil and Magna paint to parody old-fashioned comic strips. His painting Drowning Girl appeared in 1963 and came directly from DC Comics' Secret Hearts issue number eighty-three.
The Sidney Janis Gallery opened its doors to pop artists during 1962 with an International Exhibition of the New Realists surveying American French Swiss Italian and British creators. Fifty-four artists appeared including Richard Lindner Wayne Thiebaud Roy Lichtenstein Andy Warhol Claes Oldenburg James Rosenquist Jim Dine Robert Indiana Tom Wesselmann George Segal Peter Phillips Peter Blake Öyvind Fahlström Yves Klein Arman Daniel Spoerri Christo and Mimmo Rotella.