Summary
If your idea of art involves supermarket products, comic book panels, and photos of celebrities, then we have just the movie for you! Learn all about pop art, an artistic movement that celebrated popular culture as it existed after World War II. You’ll discover how pop artists elevated ordinary images from magazines and supermarkets to the status of high art. You'll find out how the movement used irony and humor to make its points, how it embraced commercialism and mass-production techniques, and how it thumbed its nose at the artistic establishment. Finally, you’ll meet some of pop art’s most well-known practitioners, including Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and of course, Andy Warhol. You’ll never look at a can of tomato soup the same way again!
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
A few questions to talk through after watching Pop Art:
- What is one new thing you learned about pop art?
- Can you explain it to a partner in your own words?
- Where might you see this in the real world?
- What is one question you still have?
Quick work-a-long
Try it:
- Write one sentence explaining pop art.
- Draw or give one example of your own.