Art & Design Lesson Plan
Pop Art: Artists and Movements
Lesson by Lizzie Allen, Art Teacher
Background
Pop Art is a theme which we have successfully used many times at KS3 and KS4. The
bright colours and links to popular culture are often inspiring to our students, and the work
created in this project is usually of a high standard.
The theme works particularly well with those who lack
confidence in their own abilities as students are able
to create a series of ‘rules’ to follow in order to
create Pop Art style work.
Approach / intentions
The project starts with a series of
observational drawings based on cakes,
sweets, drinks cans and other confectionery
in a variety of media. This is intended to
improve drawing skills and ensure students
have a wide variety of reference material
in their sketchbooks. We then move on to
Pop Art: Art
ists and Mo
vements,
an in-depth look at Pop Art, asking students
Slide 2
to present their findings as a ‘critical study’, a
mixture of visual and written research. Students
then begin to bring their observational studies and
artist research together, creating drawings based on the
Pop Art style (as detailed in the lesson plan below), before producing large scale paintings.
Learning Objective
Students should be able to use the work of another artist as an influence to their own art.
Starter
Slide 2 – This is great as a very clear and brief recap on the work of Roy Lichtenstein and
sets a clear learning objective.
Slide 3 – I use this as the starting point for small group discussions. I print out the
questions, asking each group to focus on a different aspect. After a couple of minutes each
group feeds back to the whole class; creating a formula or checklist on how to create their
own Roy Lichtenstein style drawing (I write notes on the whiteboard).
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Oxford, OX4 1LF
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Art & Design Lesson plan
Pop Art: Artists and Movements
Main
•
Students trace one of their observational
drawings from the previous lessons onto white
paper (you could ask students to do this before
hand and have photocopies ready!).
•
Using the checklist created in the
starter, students are to colour their work in
the style of Roy Lichtenstein (colour pens
work well at this stage). Hopefully students
should have suggested they use a limited
colour scheme, black lines and Benday dots.
Plenary
•
I ask students in pairs to peer assess
their work. Students are to consider if their partner
has achieved the learning objective and why. I then
encourage feedback from the whole group.
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Slide 4 – I use this sorting activity slide to recap the learning objective. It is a fun end to the
lesson and often works well dividing the class
into teams in order to answer the questions.
Outcomes / Benefits:
By following a set of ‘rules’, all students are
able to achieve high quality outcomes. The
concision of the Boardworks slides means
that at the end of the lesson students are
able to clearly identify the influences they
have taken from the work of Roy Lichtenstein.
Students use these small drawings as the starting
point for a series of bigger and more personal
‘design ideas’ before creating a large scale painting.
Boardworks Ltd
The Gallery
54 Marston Street
Oxford, OX4 1LF
Pop Art: Art
ists and Mo
vements,
Slide 3
Pop Art: Art
ists and Mo
vements,
Slide 4
t: 0845 0 300 400
f: 0845 0 300 200
[email protected]
www.boardworks.co.uk