Pop art lesson

Pop Art refers to a movement during the mid- to late-1950s in the UK and US that used images from popular culture to create fine art. It was inspired by the everyday and created by artists who sought to mirror identifiable images, critique the newly booming consumerist market, and blur the lines...

One of my favorite art movements is Pop Art and I love it! I love the artists, I love what came out of it! As well, I think teaching art lessons that are inspired by the Pop Art Movement is a great way to engage the learners in your classroom. Let's look at 5 Pop Art Lesson ideas for Kids in your classroom!

Roy Lichtenstein is one of my favorite artists. His work is bright, bold, graphic, and thought provoking. We were visiting Chicago a couple of years ago, and as luck would have it, we were there during an AMAZING Lichtenstein retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago . (Side note: if y

We had a lot fun studying real candy prices as our inspiration for our Pop Art Candy Paintings. Tempra paint and black Sharpie outlines adde...

Students in grades 5 & 6 have been diligently working on their Onomatopoeia art for the past two weeks. First, they had to fill up the entire 9x12 paper with black text from magazine pages. Then, they were to create a sketch of their word and some action symbols that represent the chosen word. Next, they drew their design on top of the magazine paper with a sharpie marker and added shadowing around their letters. Last, I had them use a limited color palette of blue, red, and yellow to…

Learn how to write your name with overlapping letters and use bubble wrap to make a dot pattern inspired by Pop Art artist Roy Lichtenstein.

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Candy Pop Art is a fun and colorful art lesson that students and have a lot of success with. Here's why they love it and how I teach it.

The past couple of weeks, 5th grade has been working on this Andy Warhol and Pop Art inspired work of art! This is one of my last art on a cart lessons, and is great for someone in that situation. All you need is paper, pencils, Sharpies, and markers! Here's how we created them! Materials: Ticonderoga pencils Crayola markers Sharpie markers 9x12" Sax 60lb paper 4x4" pieces of 60lb paper (Amazon affiliate links) Day 1: We talked about Pop Art, and showed the art of Andy Warhol. After we…

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