Pop

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/pop

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the notable artists?Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, David Hockney
2. What is Pop Art?Pop Art is a colorful art style that uses everyday things like soup cans, comic books, and celebrities to make pictures that look like advertising.
3. Why did Pop artists use things from everyday life?They wanted to show that art can come from the same world we live in, like movies, ads, and products, and to talk about how we see and use these things.

Avant-garde: New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature.
Mass Production: The manufacturing of large quantities of standardized products, often using assembly lines.
Iconography: The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study of such.
Appropriation: The use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.