Art lesson 1. (Andy warhol)

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Example:

Campbell’s Soup: Ode to Food

About the Art

Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can paintings are key works of the 1960s pop art movement, a moment when many artists made work derived from popular culture. Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans elevate the popular or everyday to the status of art. The Campbell’s brand and its red-and-white label date from the late nineteenth century and became increasingly familiar in the twentieth century, particularly with the increase in mass production and advertising after World War II. Warhol himself said, “Pop art is about liking things,” and claimed that he ate Campbell’s soup every day for twenty years. For him, it was the quintessential American product: he marveled that the soup, like Coca-Cola, always tasted the same, whether consumed by prince or pauper.

Discussion Questions

1. What would you love to eat every day for twenty years?
2. What would you not like to eat every day?
3. Does repetition affect your taste for something? Explain your answer.
4. When an artist repeats an image over and over again, what effect does it have on the viewer?
5. Why do you think Warhol made so many Campbell’s Soup Can paintings?

Materials

• Image of Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can
• Colored pencils
• Pens
• Ode to a Food handout
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Vocabulary

• Ode: A lyric poem praising or glorifying a feeling, person, object, or event. Odes may vary in length and complexity.

Procedure

1. Students write an ode about their food of choice (favorite, aversion, or other) and make an accompanying drawing of this food. 
2. Explain what an ode is.
3. Pass out materials and supplies. Students may start with the illustration or the ode or work back and forth between the two.

Wrap-up

Students present their odes to the class and discuss the similarities and differences between the foods the class liked and disliked. First in their journals, then in a class discussion, students reflect on the following questions:

1.  Did you notice any cultural trends within the class?
2.  Are the class’s favorite foods advertised in the media? If so, how?
3.  Does the media affect our likes and dislikes when it comes to food? If so, how?