Inspiration: 'Campbell's Soup Cans' , 1962 by Andy Warhol (1928 -1987).
After discussing Pop Art and Andy Warhol, I had each student in my grade 5/6 class make a life-size drawing of a can of Campbell's soup. When their drawings are grouped together I find this a really useful marking tool for grading students on their use of line, shape and space. I have done this same activity in the past with Coca-Cola cans.
Hi Anne,
ReplyDeleteI have just spent ages looking through all your art lessons - I am so impressed with your ideas and your students results! I am currently teaching K-10 art in a small Christian school in central NSW and am just finishing Pop Art with my Year 8s. I love the soup tin drawings, and will file it away for next time. I also LOVE the clay cupcakes and will hopefully do that next year with our middle school. Thanks for taking the time to post up your lessons - they are fantastic!
Thanks so much for commenting Amanda - glad to have helped you out with some ideas :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a charming idea, but totally ruins the intended meaning behind the mass produced soup cans. These are highly personalized, Warhol's point was mass-production and objectivity.
ReplyDeleteThis is true, Anonymous. I guess I was thinking of it as encouraging the kids to question what art is and to see a mundane mass-produced object as a potential artwork the way Warhol did.
DeleteIn displaying them this way I was trying to show them the impact of the repetition of these types of objects, however, this does backfire when each drawing is so individually interesting when viewed up close! I suppose I could make this a topic for discussion with them?