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Pop Art Projects for Students: Bringing Colorful Creativity to the Classroom

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Art By Roy Lichtenstein (All Photos By Gail)

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Pop art has long enthralled audiences. Originating in the 1950s and 60s, its vibrant colors, bold imagery, and whimsical themes continue to delight viewers today. By integrating pop art projects into classrooms, teachers can foster creative thought and expand cultural understanding by engaging their students with contemporary culture,  while giving them a chance to express themselves visually through dynamic projects. This article presents several engaging pop art projects suitable for students that bring vibrant creativity into any learning experience!
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Roy Lichtenstein, Bauhaus Stairway Mural

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Bauhaus Stairway Mural (1989) speaks to Roy Lichtenstein’s dialogue with various art historical styles, which would figure prominently throughout his career. Measuring more than 26 feet tall and painted in oil and Magna on canvas, this spectacular mural pays homage to the German artist Oskar Schlemmer (1888 – 1943) and his painting Bahaustreppe (Bauhaus Stairway, 1932), which is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC, and reproduced below.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Roy Lichtenstein, Study for Interior with Ajax

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Photo By Gail

In the 1990s, Roy Liechtenstein created a body of work called Interiors, in which he mixed references to classical antiquity, the renaissance, and modernism. He also used visual signs plucked from his own illustrious career, such as his characteristic Ben-Day dots . Created in the last year of Lichtenstein‘s life, this drawing is a study for a painting, Interior with Ajax (1997), commissioned by the fashion designer Gianni Versace. In it, a confused looking Ajax, a hero of Greek mythology, finds himself in an an eclectically decorated room in which styles float free of their contexts and hatch marks are divorced from their descriptive function.

Photographed in the Morgan Library in Manhattan.

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Kobra’s Peace Mural in Midtown

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I don’t spend much time in midtown, so when I passed by this mural by Eduardo Kobra on 44th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues I thought it might be new. As it turns out, this work, which features an image of American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, has been up since August 2018. Continue reading Kobra’s Peace Mural in Midtown →

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Modern Art Monday Presents: Roy Lichtenstein, Artists Studio: Foot Medication

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Artists Studio Foot Medication
Photo By Gail

By the 1970s, Roy Lichtenstein’s comic-strip style of painting had become his trademark. While he had adapted his early compositions from actual comic books, here Lichtenstein referred to an art historical rather than a pop culture source: Henri Matisse’s Red Studio (1911, in the collection of MoMA), which features Matisse’s canvases casually set around a room. Into the flattened studio space of Artists Studio Foot Medication (1974), Lichtenstein similarly inserted whole of partial versions of his own real and imagined artworks across a range of subject matter, including geometric abstraction. This painting’s title calls out the 1962 print Foot Medication, reimagined as a monumental painting at the upper left. This kind of self-quotation, at once playful and thoughtful, would become anther feature of Lichtenstein’s production.

Photographed in the Art Institute Chicago.