1. Northwood Elementary PTA Art Enrichment Program
Andy Warhol – Pop Art
4th Grade Art Project
Northwood Elementary PTA Art Enrichment Program

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3. Lesson Overview Grade: Fourth Lesson: Andy Warhol
Medium: Colored Pencils, pastels, crayons, markers
Time: minutes
Volunteers: 2 plus the lead
Curriculum Tie: Popular Culture
Project Overview/Skills 
Students will learn about Andy Warhol and pop culture and then create artwork using a photograph of themselves or a pop culture icon.
Art Resources
Andy Warhol
Vocabulary
Pop art: making art out of every day popular mass culture things.
Kitschy
American Modernism
Commodities
Banal
Context

4. Supply List Home preparation:
Home preparation:
6 Black and White copies of a photo of each student’s face. Get photographs from the teacher or enlarge the class photo and make copies of each kids face from it. Pixilated resolution is fine. Enlarge each photo while copying so that 4 photos fit on 8 ½ x 11 paper.
If you are unable to get a picture of each student, then use an elementary appropriate celebrity headshot instead. (i.e. current pop stars, comic book heroes, sports stars, etc. - SEE accompanying “Pop Art Images for Lesson”)
Materials
white construction paper (full sheet or cut down)
scissors (borrow from Art Room)
colored pencils, pastels, crayons or colored marker pens
Post-Lesson
the Parent Letter for this lesson to your room parent (available on the PTA website under ”Art Docent Volunteer Resources”) and ask your room parent to forward it to the class. The letter gives the parents context for the lesson their student completed and this step helps ensure on-going support of the Northwood PTA Art Docent program!

5. Lesson Notes
Show the power point presentation with overview of Warhol biography and examples of his art work
Talking Points:
American modernism, like modernism in general, is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation, and is thus in its essence both progressive and optimistic. The general term covers many political, cultural and artistic movements rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. American modernism is an artistic and cultural movement in the United States starting at the turn of the 20th century with its core period between World War I and World War II and continuing into the 21st century.
 Pop Art is a visual art movement that emerged in the late 1950’s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist’s use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous (next in time) with the perspective of fine art. Pop art removes the material from its context and isolates the object or combines it with other objects for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
 Pop art is an art movement of the 20th century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects, Pop art, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists’ use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
 Andy Warhol created many prints. Ask the class if they know what a print is (like making prints and re-prints of pictures). When you make prints, you can create multiple pieces of artwork from one original. Andy Warhol’s vision was to create art for the masses. By making prints of his art, he allowed many copies to be distributed. Often times Warhol’s art is repeated with different patterns and colors. For example looking at the Marilyn Monroe slide you can ask the students if each painting is the same. Why do you think he did that? Why, do you think, did he choose those colors?
 Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists. Consider the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art. Consider Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.
 “Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.” Roy Lichtenstein

6. Today’s Activity
Give each student a piece of white construction paper. Let them choose the image they will be coloring (either their photo or a pop icon – SEE accompanying “Pop Art Images for Lesson”). They will need 4-6 photocopies of the same image.
Explain to the students that they are going to make their own Warhol art just like the Marilyn Monroe slide they looked at. They are going to cut out their photocopied pictures. They should all be roughly the same size.
Then they color in each copy. Your choice (or their choice) is what they use; pencils, pastels, crayons or markers.
Arrange the colored pictures in the center of the construction paper just like the Marilyn Monroe slide. Glue the pictures down with glue stick.

7. Andrew Warhol
(6 August 1928 – 22 February 1987)
Often known as the patron saint of post-modernism, was an expert at the timeless art of portraiture.
He was a central figure in the movement known as pop art.
After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author, and a public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

12. Since the eighteenth century, portraits of famous people have bridged a gap of time, and provided a link to the soul of the subject. Warhol was particularly intrigued by the allurement of high-profile celebrities of his generation. Many insights can be read into the faces of the characters that Warhol created, including his images of himself..

14. Warhol was perhaps best known for his paintings of commercial subjects, such as the Campbell's Soup can series,

16. and for his portraits of celebrities…

17. especially Marilyn Monroe

19. What is Art ?

20. Maybe… “Art is love made visible. “ August Degas
Art is something you create.
Art can be an apple or an orange.
Art is your reaction to something.
Art asks questions and makes you the viewer ask questions.

21. Today’s Project- Pop Art
You will be creating your very own pop art!
We are going to color a black and white image of our self in pencil crayon.
We are going to use a ruler to make sure our grid lines are straight.
We are going to use different colors for each image.
We are going to use a black pencil to create details that will be the same on every image.

24. Things to remember Andy Warhol led the art movement called Pop Art.
Pop Art was bright and brought new things into art like images of famous people and mass produced products.
Art makes you smart!
Everyone is an artist!