3. Roy Lichtenstein
Learning Objectives:
To be able to compose a collage as a group.
To be able to create a pop art inspired artwork consisting of both images and words.
Teacher's Notes:
This is a pop art inspired artwork by American born artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923). Lichtenstein's work is largely inspired by the comic strip style and popular advertising. In this painting Lichtenstein has based his image on the popular comic "All American Men of
War" published by DC comics. It is important to recognise that although the artist's work is not a complete transformation
of the original comic strip, it does differ in that it employs different colours and scale and it indicates a different meaning.
The fact that pop art involves manipulating popular advertising, news and comics, means that it can employ text and images which children can relate to and be interested in.
This picture can inspire children to create collages using their favourite graphic novels, such as comics and manga, and other sources.
Key Questions:
What's on the picture
1. What sounds would this painting make if it could? What helps you to visualise these sounds?
Thinking within the picture
2. Why do you think that the artist has included text within this picture?
3. What do you think inspired the artist to create this picture?
Making connections outside the picture
4. What would you be feeling if you were the pilot of the plane on the left?
Key Vocabulary:
*Pop art * Popular culture * News * Advertisement * Comic strips * Manga * Scale * Colour * Collage * Onomatopeic Words * Speech Bubbles * Scissor Cutting * Gluing * Source Material * Stiff Paperboard *PVA Glue * Brushes*
The Lesson as Part of a Sequence:
This is the third lesson in the sequence of six. In this lesson children will be working in groups of 4 to create a collage using visual source material from their favourite graphic novels, advertisment and news. The teacher should establish some ground rules with children about working in groups.
The teacher will select comic panels and discuss with the class how they might manipulate them and use other visual sources to achieve an opposite or humorous effect. The teacher will also model to children how images can be overlapped effectively.
During this activity children will select the images they would like to use and thus create a small plan of what they want to achieve before asking the teacher to blow up the images and text that they are going to need using a photocopier. Children will cut out and glue their images and text onto a stiff A2 paperboard to achieve a poster like artwork.
Children with SEN/D can use easi-grip scissors to help them cut the images.
At the end of the lesson groups should discuss with the class about what they have achieved, what they might have done differently and what they liked about their work.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaam!#mediaviewer/File:Roy_Lichtenstein_Whaam.jpg
Whaam!, 1963
