The pop art style is simple to teach and create. Teachers can educate about Andy Warhol's pop art, other famous pop artists and pop art in today's culture.
Materials Required:
Generate various artists' types of pop art introducing this style to students. Picture, slides, books or any other visual aids are helpful to show the lesson. Here is an example of pop art on thumbdrives.
Take a look at Shepard Fairey's famous Obama pop art poster.
Andy Warhol's pop art painting of Campbell's tomato soup can painted in red and green is yet another good example.
Show how artists often used large paintings or drawings of mass produced products in unusual ways. For instance, large, inedible sculptures of popsicles in brown fur show how this talent depicts popular yet unexpected colors or textures.
Using 12 x 18 inch drawing paper, sketch the pop can from the view showing the top of the can. Teach students how you can draw both a curved top and bottom to make it look three dimensional. Since it is a painting, only sketch detail that can be painted in. Try to make the primary letters as near to the original as possible.
Use bright acrylic paints to color the can. Use unexpected colors for example blue on the coke can, and green on a pepsi can. If the colors are green, yellow or orange for citrus drinks, attempt to pick complementary colors for example purple and blue instead. Have the students mix together blues and yellows to create different colors of green. Add black for darker shades and white for lighter shades of the colors.
Paint the letters in first, then paint within the backgrounds. Try to paint the brush strokes around the can to make it look round. Try to paint in white spots where light hits the can.
Remember to display the student interact inside a showcase to make the art pop out. Use a background color for example yellow to help make the bright colors stick out. Attempt to have various kinds of pop displayed together. Display them side by side just like Coke cans would be shown on store shelves. This adds to the idea of mass marketing popular culture which artists were captivated by at the time. The title of the display might be 'Pop Art, Pop Cans, Pop Culture".
Use many different brands of pop so that students can compare the ways marketers come up with their brand stand out. Allow students to choose the brand they wish to try to sketch. Challenge better artists to attract harder designs.
Use pop cans of the identical brand such as coke and have a lot of students use different colors on their painting. Or use one brand for example coke and show all of the different types of coke for example diet coke, coke zero, etc.
Only use two complementary colors its the paintings. For instance, use yellow and purple for all parts of the pop can to ensure that students must choose steps to make it stick out. Display all of them together for a really eye-catching display.
Make use of the lesson to teach about complementary colors, tints and shades. Have students mix their very own colors to produce the different greens, purples, or orange colors needed.
Use the lesson to go over influences on art for example popular culture, nature or the imagination.
Make use of the lesson to show other areas where pop art is used such as: designs for clothing and shoes, designs on thumbnail memory sticks, campaign icons, posters, and billboard advertising. This video on Obama and pop culture through the artist Shepard Fairey could be accustomed to teach about the influences of art and popular culture together.
Make use of the lesson to show students the advantages of recycling. Ask them how the pop cans might be reused in a new way, or recycled. Demonstrate can and bottle recycling when doing this project by recycling bottles and cans within the classroom and school daily.
This easy pop art painting project is fun for college students to complete. They'll learn how popular culture influences clothing choice, advertising and art itself. They'll see how pop art can make an ordinary pop can right into a beautiful talent. The many bright colors and repeating images in a pop art gallery will emphasize how pop art was a response to mass production in Andy Warhol's time. They will learn about current and iconic pop artists.
To explore steps to make relief prints using the pop art genre of art, teachers can try this lesson plan on pop art.