Matrix: Contemporary Printmaking - Museum of Fine Arts - Florida ...

Fall 2009
Lesson Plan
Pop Art Food
Session Activity: Students will look at Andy Warhol’s Soup Can print and discuss why they
think he created this work. They can also see that art can be found everywhere, even if it is a
soup can. After they discuss the work, students will draw their favorite foods and write short
poems on the drawings about the food. After they have finished they will share their pictures
and poems with the class.
Level: 1-5 th grade
Time: 45 minutes
Key Concept: 1. Students will learn about Andy Warhol and pop art.
2. Students will see that art can be found anywhere.
write
3. Students will get to create their own pop art images of their favorite foods and
about them.
Materials:
Image of Andy Warhol’s Soup Can
Paper
Markers /pencils/pens
Vocabulary: Pop art, printmaking, screen-printing
Procedure:
1. Students will learn about the pop art movement. They will learn about Andy Warhol and
his life and what he did for the art world.
a. Pop art is an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached
its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous,
everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, such as
comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt
with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings,
mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft
sculptures.
b. Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburg in 1928. He was always fascinated by
celebrities and socialites. He was sick a lot as a young kid and would spend
hours in his bed drawing or looking at magazine clippings. Once he was old
enough he went to an art school for commercial arts. He then gained an
interest in advertising. He did ads for shoes which gave him much success
and was then hired to do record covers by a large record company. Once he
had gained fame he started doing his own work in his own studio which
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