Pop art emerged in the 1950s as a visual art movement that depicted themes and objects from popular culture such as advertisements, movies, and television. Artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg are known for creating large, colorful reproductions of everyday items and icons to comment on mass consumerism. Oldenburg's sculptures in particular transform functional objects like food into architectural-scale pieces. This document provides background on pop art and examples of seminal works before outlining an assignment asking students to create a life-sized ceramic sculpture of food in the style of pop art.

1. A Brief Lesson in the American
Artistic Movement;
Ceramics and Sculpture

2. n. A form of art that depicts
objects or scenes from
everyday life and employs
techniques of commercial art
and popular illustration.
pop-art (pŏp'ärt')
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Language, Fourth Edition

3. A visual art movement that emerged in the 1950s
and was popular in the 1960s in the United States.
Characterized by themes and techniques drawn
from popular mass culture, such as television,
movies, advertising and comic books.
Food was a common theme, but so were
household objects.
Pop artists liked to satirize or ridicule objects,
sometimes enlarging those objects to gigantic
proportions . These objects reflected mass culture
and consumerism.
The movement was marked by clear lines, sharp
paintwork and clear representations of symbols,
objects and people commonly found in popular
culture.

4. Andy Warhol
Robert Rauschenberg
Roy Lichtenstein
Tom
Claes Oldenburg

5. Andy Warhol
“Campbell’s Soup”
1968
Andy Warhol
“Sixteen Jackies”
1964

6. Roy Lichtenstein
“Whaam!”
1963
Roy Lichtenstein
“Hopeless”
1963

7. Roy Lichtenstein
“Brush Stroke”
1996, enlarged and
fabricated 2002-03

8. Tom Wesselmann
“Still Life #24”
1962
Tom Wesselmann
"Smoker number 1
(Mouth number 12)"
1967

9. Robert Raushchenberg
“Signs”
1970

10. And now for the subject matter we’ll
be focusing on…

11. Claes Oldneberg
•
Claes Oldenburg (born January
28, 1929) is a Swedish American
sculptor, best known for his
public art installations typically
featuring very large replicas of
everyday objects. Another theme
in his work is soft sculpture
versions of everyday objects.
Many of his works were made in
collaboration with his wife,
Coosje van Bruggen, who died in
2009 after 32 years of marriage.

12. Claes Oldenburg
“Spoonbridge and Cherry”
1985-1988
Claes Oldenburg
“Dropped Cone”
2001

13. Claes Oldenberg

14. Subjects are often easily recognizable and reflect
popular items, people or ideas from American Culture:
Food
Brand Names and products
Iconic Figures
Common, everyday household items
Current events
Stylistically pop art can be defined as:
Simple, crisp lines
Oversized images or objects
Often reflects and copies the styles seen in the media
Collages of popular images
Bright Colors
Some work re-creates the same subject in
several pieces or within the same piece

15. Ceramics and Sculpture Pop Art Assignment
Objective: Create food still life
using techniques and themes
seen in work by artists like Claus
Oldenberg
Should be life size
Should attempt realism
Must be a CONTAINER (FUNCTIONAL)
You will need to:
Watch and respond to this PowerPoint
Bring in color pictures of food you
would like to sculpt/have them saved on a
device and send me a backup copy:
jcahoon@epschoolsri.com
Create preliminary sketches before
working
Determine when pinch, coil or slab
methods are needed. (Labeled in sketch)
Execute in clay
Paint or glaze (realistic colors).

16. Some Examples of High School Art:
Food and Ceramics

23. Student Work from 2011_2012

33. STUDENT WORK 2012/2013 SCHOOL YEAR: CERAMICS
CLASS
Appetizer Plate:
•Clean, unused to
go box and tissue
used.
•Condiments made
out of paint and
pastes.
•One of the Potato
Skins was the
container.

34. Sushi: One of the
Tuna Rolls was the
container.
Banana Split: The
whole top came
off: Bowl made out
of coils.
Cookie Plate: The
cup was made and
had a hot coco
container.

35. Oreos: Several of
them were mini
containers.
Cupcakes: All
were containers.
Pie: Crust was a
container.
Donuts:
Chocolate
frosted…
Frosting comes
off.

36. Burger: Bun
comes off… The
Burger is hollow.
Grilled Cheese:
Repeat C&S
student. No
container.
Goldfish: The
carton was a
container.

37. Works Cited:
Slide 2 - Definition of Pop Art: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Pop Art
Slide 3- Information About Pop Art History:
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/popart/
Slide 4- Photo of Andy Warhol:
http://www.poolparty.com/quotes/images/2007/09/24/andy_warhol.jpg
Photo of Roy Lichtenstein:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/Roy
%20Lichtenstein%20portrait/tomasu tpen/album4/lichtenstein.jpg
Photo of Claes Oldenburg:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/com.artwelove.asset/5f19ce303a0be2aa6ab3395d7dabbf f4-l.jpg
Photo of Tom Wesselmann:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZujt_O1vU/SdybvAXCCPI/AAAAAAAAAGM/1Q2ih3zGuk
g/s400/Tom_Wesselmann.jpg
Slide 5- Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Painting:
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~mplog/Art/Warhol_campbells%20soup.jpg
Andy Warhol Jackie Painting:
http://annespeelman.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/andywarhol-jackie-kennedy1964.jpg

38. Works Cited
Slide 6- Roy Lichtenstein Girl Painting:
http://baroqueinhackney.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/roy_lichtenstein_gallery
_4.jpg
Roy Lichtenstein Whaam Painting:
http://simplyartonline.net/M-0137v3wham.jpg
Slide 7- Photos of Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture: photo by Aja Alim-Young 2009, In front of
Modern Art Museum in Washington D.C.
Slide 8- Tom Wesselmann Mouth Piece:
http://www.findagrave.com/photos/2004/356/10164756_110373764570.jpg
Tom Wesselmann Still life:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/tom
%20wesselmann/Death2Perky/24l.jpg
Slide 9- Robert Raushchenberg Painting:
http://www.museumofthegulfcoast.org/images/rausch.jpg
Slide 10- Spoon and cherry Sculpture:
http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/largescaleprojects/spoonbridge.htm
Ice Cream Cone Sculpture:
http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/largescaleprojects/droppedcone.htm
Slide 11- Summary of key ideas by Aja Alim-Young, referred by
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/popart/
Slide12- Line Art Examples:
http://www.staceytownsend.com/turnmeintopopart/images/home_quadimage.png
http://www.melissaclifton.com/image158.html
2D Pop Art Assignment: Created by Aja Alim-Young