WRITTEN BY Keli Sipperley Art and Music
Level: M Word Count: 298 Words 100th word: cans page 10 Content Area Vocabulary: Read the list. What do these words mean? celebrities collages comic book exhibit extraordinary gallery method museum ordinary popular Building Background Knowledge Before reading a book, it is important to tap into what your child or students already know about the topic. This will help them develop their vocabulary, increase their reading comprehension, and make connections across the curriculum. 1. Look at the cover of the book. What will this book be about? 2. What do you already know about the topic? 3. Let s study the Table of Contents. What will you learn about in the book s chapters? 4. What would you like to learn about this topic? Do you think you might learn about it from this book? Why or why not? 5. Use a reading journal to write about your knowledge of this topic. Record what you already know about the topic and what you hope to learn about the topic. 6. Read the book. 7. In your reading journal, record what you learned about the topic and your response to the book. 8. Complete the activities at the end of the book.
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2014 Rourke Educational Media All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher. www.rourkeeducationalmedia.com PHOTO CREDITS: Cover: Christie s Images, LUKE MACGREGOR; page 4-5, 7, 12, 21: Associated Press; page 6-7, 9: Burstein Collection; page 8: Rune Hellestad; page 10-11: LUKE MACGREGOR; page 13, 15: Christie s Images; page 14: Joe Potato Photo; page 16-17: Albright-Knox Art Gallery; page 19: Juli Hansen; page 20-21: Dan Forer; page 22: Ferran Traite Soler Edited by Jill Sherman Cover and Interior design by Tara Raymo A Look at Pop Art / Keli Sipperley (Art and Music) ISBN 978-1-62169-875-3 (hard cover) ISBN 978-1-62169-770-1 (soft cover) ISBN 978-1-62169-975-0 (e-book) Library of Congress Control Number: 2013936784 Library of Congress PCN Data Rourke Educational Media Printed in the United States of America, North Mankato, Minnesota Also Available as: rourkeeducationalmedia.com customerservice@rourkeeducationalmedia.com PO Box 643328 Vero Beach, Florida 32964
Table of Contents Art is Everywhere....4 Soups Stir Things Up....10 Characteristics of Pop Art...12 End of an Era....18 Pop Art Leaves Its Mark....20 Glossary....23 Index....24 Websites to Visit....24 About the Author...24
Art is Everywhere Is your lunch a work of art? It could be. 4
French Fries and Ketchup by Claes Oldenburg, 1963 5
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Still Life #25 by Tom Wesselmann, 1963 During the 1950s and 1960s, a new style of art emerged that changed the way people viewed fine art. Artists in the United States and Great Britain turned the ordinary into the extraordinary by creating art based on American popular culture. 7
Swingeing London by Richard Hamilton, 1972 Richard Hamilton (1922 2011) Works based on images like these would have been considered low art prior to the pop art movements. Images of celebrities and advertisements were not considered worth displaying in a gallery or museum until the pop art movement began. 8
Pop artists created fun, artistic images of everyday America. Pop art is for everyone, artist Andy Warhol said. Superman by Andy Warhol, 1960 Andy Warhol (1928 1987) 9
Soup Stirs Things Up 10 In 1962, Andy Warhol s 32 paintings of Campbell s Soup cans were displayed in a California art gallery.
The paintings rested on a shelf as if they were products on a grocery store shelf. The soup can exhibit made Warhol famous and marked the climax of the pop art movement in America. 11
Characteristics of Pop Art Pop art paintings tend to have very bright colors, usually red, yellow, and blue. The images in pop art are flat like those in comic books. Some artists also used Ben-Day dots, a method borrowed from comic book printing. Roy Lichtenstein is famous for his paintings inspired by comic books. 12 Roy Lichtenstein (1923 1997)
Sweet Dreams Baby! by Roy Lichtenstein, 1962 13
Silk screens are also used in pop art. Andy Warhol used this commercial printing technique to reproduce an image multiple times. 14
Self portrait by Andy Warhol, 1966 15
Some pop artists used found materials, such as discarded television sets and telephones, to create their work. Others used photographs to make collages. 16
Still Life #20 by Tom Wesselmann, 1962 17
End of an Era In 1965, Andy Warhol said the pop art movement was over, but its impact remains strong today. Modern artists still use the techniques made famous by Warhol and others to create everything from portraits to websites and greeting cards. Pop art influences many artists today. Urban artists like Shepard Fairey use the silk screening techniques made popular by Warhol to create iconic images. 18
Hope poster by Shepard Fairey, 2008 19
Pop Art leaves its mark 20 Art by Romero Britto on display in a gallery.
Pop artists broke down the barriers between low art and fine art with their work based on things people see every day. Romero Britto (1963 ) 21
LOVE Sculpture by Robert Indiana, 1970 From soup cans to superheroes, the pop art movement showed the world that art is everywhere. 22
Glossary Ben-Day dots (ben-day dahts): dots used to add shading in comic books, newspapers, and other printed works celebrities (suh-leb-ri-teez): famous people, such as movie stars and singers climax (KLYE-maks): the most important part collages (kuh-lahzhz): pieces of art made by attaching different items such as photographs and objects to a surface discarded (dis-kahrd-ed): thrown away exhibit (ig-zib-it): a public show of art or other interesting things silk screens (silk skreenz): a method of printing that puts color through special fabric that only lets the paint go through certain areas 23
Index Ben-Day dots 12 collages 16 comic books 12 popular culture 7 sculpture 22 silk screens 14 Websites www.moma.org/interactives/redstudio/popart www.ducksters.com/history/art/pop_art.php library.thinkquest.org/j001159/artstyle.htm About the Author Keli Sipperley is a multimedia journalist and children s book author living in Tampa, Florida. She enjoys writing stories about interesting moments, fun places, and people who help others in their communities. She has two sons and two daughters who love reading and writing as much as she does. Meet The Author! www.meetremauthors.com 24
Comprehension and Extension Activities After reading the book, work on the following questions with your child or students in order to check their level of reading comprehension and content mastery. 1. When did pop art begin? 2. What inspired pop artists? 3. What types of colors are usually found in pop art? 4. Who was a famous pop artist? 5. How did pop artists use found materials? Extension Activity Gather some everyday objects. Now have fun and build a pop art sculpture.
Art and Music Pop art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the postwar consumer boom of the 1950s and 1960s. Pop art was brash, young, fun, and hostile to the artistic establishment. This title will allow students to analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent. Books In This Series Include: A Look at Cubism A Look at Impressionist Art A Look at Pop Art A Look at Renaissance Art A Look at Urban Art A Listen to Classical Music A Listen to Jazz A Listen to Patriotic Music A Listen to Rock N Roll A Listen to World Music rourkeeducationalmedia.com