Warhol and the Pop Art Movement

#TheCompleteSeries6lessons

Detailed lesson plans, engaging slides, differentiated activity ideas and lots of other great resources will provide everything you need to enable your class to produce their own fantastic Warhol-inspired artwork.

#Lesson1AnIntroduction

The first lesson in this series introduces your class to Andy Warhol and gives them a brief overview of the Pop art movement. They will look at what popular culture was like at the time, as well as explore the biographical details of Warhol's life.

This lesson includes a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, Question and Answer Cards, a Picture Sheet and an Answer Sheet.

#Lesson2BlottedLineTechnique

This lesson looks at Warhol's early career as a commercial artist, looking specifically at his blotted line technique and how he used this to recreate the same image. Children can then have a go at using this technique for themselves, either creating their own image or using Warhol's artwork as inspiration.

This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated Picture Cards.

#Lesson3SoupCans

No scheme of work on Pop art would be complete without a lesson on Warhol's iconic 'Campbell's Soup Can' series! Your class will think about why Warhol chose soup cans as the focus of a series of paintings and investigate how his soup cans have become one of the most recognisable art icons of all time. And, of course, your class can recreate some soup can labels of their own in a variety of ways.

This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, a Colour Testing Sheet and a Label Template.

#Lesson4Celebrities

Warhol was fascinated with the cult of celebrity and he often used this as the focus of his artwork. This lesson shows children some of Warhol's most famous celebrity portraits and demonstrates how they can make their own Warhol-Inspired portraits of modern-day celebrities.

This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, Picture Cards, Picture Sheets and a Help Sheet.

#Lesson5SelfPortraits

Warhol created many self-portraits during his lifetime. This lesson shows your class three different self-portraits of Warhol and encourages your class to think about how they can use their own creativity to produce their own self-portraits in the style of Warhol.

This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets.

#Lesson6ConsumableCulture

The final lesson in this series studies some of the ways in which Warhol reflected popular culture in his artwork by portraying items that were used in commercial advertising, such as Coke bottles. Your class will then think about items that are advertised today that are part of our everyday lives and how they can use what they have learnt about Pop art to use these objects as the focus of a piece of artwork.

This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• KS2 - to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing with a range of materials
• KS2 - to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including painting with a range of materials
• KS2 - to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including sculpture with a range of materials
• KS2 - about great artists in history