Description
The goal of the ABC of Pop Art museum lesson is to provide students with an art experience and the joy of recognition that is relevant to everyday life. The program focuses on the lives and works of iconic Pop art artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama, and Takashi Murakami. ABC introduces students to the history of Pop art in the post-World War II period and its connections to consumer society and mass culture.
Objectives
The student:
- knows when, where and why Pop art began;
- can name the most famous Pop artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami and give examples of their artworks;
- explains how the emergence of Pop art is related to the consumer society after World War II;
- is able to make connections and read and speak Pop art as a universal language;
- justifies his or her position and appreciates the diversity of points of view.
Before and after
You can come to the museum class as a blank slate to get acquainted with Pop art for the first time in a museum. If you wish, you can get acquainted with iconic Pop artists and their works in advance.
After the museum lesson, you can choose your favorite Pop artist and create your own artwork based on their example. Based on Andy Warhol, it can be a Pop art-style self-portrait or a portrait of a contemporary celebrity. It is also worth thinking about Estonian food packaging and trying to draw a series of some of them. In the style of Roy Lichtenstein, you can bring some scenes from your everyday life into the language of comics. Like Yayoi Kusama, you can cover various objects with dots and, following the example of Takashi Murakami, depict a rainbow-colored smiling sea of flowers (and skulls).
