Laura Conner, a Medway Middle School art teacher, is working with her 6th grade class as they create their own pop art. With the influence of Andy Warhol, the students work in pairs and create larger than life size candy ‘sculptures’. The students first create the form using cardboard. Using large pieces of colored paper the candy is covered, then paint is added for the details and more cut paper for the logos and imagery.
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| Paper plates for Mentos Candy |
The students have access to a shared laptop to look up their
candy. Students are often going back to
make sure they are doing an accurate replica.
Miss Conner says this is a project the students enjoying doing
every year. After completed, the projects will be displayed in the library.
Last years candy project is still on display in the library and will soon be replaced
with this 6th grade class.
Pop art is an art
movement that emerged in the
mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop Art is a
style of art which explores the everyday imagery that is so much a part of
contemporary consumer culture. Common sources of imagery include
advertisements, consumer product packaging, celebrity photographs, and comic
strips.
Andy Warhol drew widely from popular culture and
everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using
the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges
and flat areas of color
