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Blotted Line Activity - This Lesson features Andy Warhol’s early drawing technique that incorporates a very basic printing process. Students use critical thinking skills to judge commercial advertisements and to make decisions on what they will include, embellish and edit out of their own drawings | Grades: 4 to 12 |
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Brillo - But Is It Art? Taste & Bias Activity - This lesson is a good icebreaker and introduction to critical response. Students think about a sometimes-difficult and controversial work of art like Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box, in order to determine their own judgments about what constitutes good art. Students use higher level thinking skills to differentiate between tastes and biases and to listen to diverse ideas even if they personally do not like a work of art in question. | Grades: 6 to 12 Subjects: Art, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Psychology, Cultural Studies |
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Camouflage: Sound Activity - Students use viewing, speaking, listening and writing skills to explore their own intuitive responses and interpretations of an artwork. Sound clips are played while students look at a work of art and write their feelings, thoughts and associations. Valuable comprehension and discussion questions allow for a rich follow-up conversation. | Grades: 4 to 12 Subjects: Art, Aesthetics, Language Arts & Writing, Social Studies, Cultural Studies |
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Commissioned Portraits: Acetate Activity - Students use photographic images and an easy collage process to alter their own self-portraits. Using Andy Warhol’s photographic-silkscreen portraits, students explore the function of portraiture and why artists are paid to create portraits. | Grades: K-12 Subjects: Art, Graphic Arts, History, Social Studies, Cultural Studies |
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Ode to Food Activity - Students produce narrative illustrations and writings in the poetic form of an ode after discussing a quote by Andy Warhol and viewing his artworks portraying Campbell’s soup cans. Students explore the concept of liking something so much; one is compelled to create art about that thing. | Grades: 1 to 12 Subjects: Art, English, Language Arts, Creative Writing |
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Death & Disaster: Newspaper Activity - Students look through contemporary newspapers to critically examine the use of photojournalism to report the news or to tell a story. Students create their own interpretation and story using Andy Warhol’s processes of appropriation, cropping and repositioning. | Grades: 6 to 12 Subjects: Social Studies, Journalism, Art, Photography, Language Arts & Writing |
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Diversity of Voice: Views on Guns in America - This lesson uses the artworks of Andy Warhol as a springboard for discussing diverse points of view about gun ownership, gun use, and gun imagery in contemporary culture. Students read texts ranging from personal viewpoints to the Bill of Rights in order to debate cultural values. | Grades: 8 to 12 Subjects: Social Studies, Civics, Art, Language Arts |
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Hammer & Sickle: Interpreting Symbols and Meaning - This lesson features artworks that incorporate powerful symbols: the hammer and sickle and the American flag. Students first deconstruct how the symbol is treated in the artwork and then infer meaning by comparing and contrasting the aesthetic qualities of the artworks. This lesson can be extended into a research project into the historic and cultural contexts behind each one of the featured works. | Grades: 8 to 12 |
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Icon Portrait Activity - This lesson is a good introduction to Warhol’s pop art and silk screening methods. Students learn how and why Andy Warhol selected imagery from culture to reflect popular values. Students make their own art project using a popular icon from their generation. Teachers can adapt this lesson by substituting images of famous people or historical images. | Grades: K-12 Subjects: Art, Social Studies, History, Cultural Studies |
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Jackie: Flashbulb Memory - This lesson explores the phenomena of flashbulb memory and the ability of powerful images to bring back personal memories. Students are introduced to the historical context behind Warhol’s portraits of Jacqueline Kennedy and are able to make comparisons and to write about their own memories of events. | Grades: 6-12 Subjects: History, Social Studies, English, Creative Writing, Art |
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Rubber Stamping Activity - Repetition, decoration, pattern and design are explored in this lesson using Warhol’s illustration technique of rubber-stamping. Elementary students can embellish shoe drawings with pre-made stamps while older students can create their own stamps and symbols. | Grades: K-12 Subjects: Art, Graphic Arts, Printmaking, |
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Screen Test Activity - After viewing and discussing Warhol’s Screen Tests, students will develop their own on-screen personality and film one another, using Warhol’s “Recipe.” Students will compare and contrast Warhol’s Screen Tests to Hollywood Screen Tests and discuss how “living portraits” can be created through the use of film. | Grades: 6-12 Subjects: Art, Creative Writing, Film, Technology |
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Still Life & Observation Drawing Activity - This drawing lesson outlines the basics of contour line drawing using Andy Warhol’s artworks as examples. Students will create simple contour line drawings of onions, followed by longer observational drawings from simple still life arrangements. | Grades: K-12 Subjects: Art, Graphic Arts |
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Super Size It: Scale in Art & Advertising - From billboards to mini I-pods the sense of scale and size is a critical factor in marketing and the appeal of products in popular culture. This lesson explores how the concept of size can change the value and/or impact of images on the viewer. Students select a picture of a product to enlarge in an artwork, then work collaboratively to paint their image. Analysis of cultural trends and historical quotes support the art making activity. | Grades: 4-12 Subject: Art, Graphic Arts, Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Math |
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Time Capsule 21: A Day in the Life of Warhol - What can you learn about someone’s personality, interests, place in culture and in history through the objects they collect? This lesson begins to explore those questions in a simple activity using an archive on the Internet of one of Andy Warhol’s 600+ Time Capsules. Students explore the contents of Time Capsules 21, selecting objects to interpret and then write about the artist. This lesson encourages creative writing as well as research and analysis. | Grades: 6-12 Subjects: English, Language Arts, Creative Writing, History, Social Studies, Art, Computer |