TASK 15 - Webquest

Pop art

Introduction

For this Web Quest, you are going to travel back to the 1960’s as a photojournalist for TIME Magazine and relive the era. You will need Introduction to talk to different people, artists and other important characters Task during this time period, in order to understand the historical and cultural events that took place in the 60’s. During your visit, you will Process also need to interview a few artists who belonged to the Pop Art Evaluation Movement.

The Task

As a photojournalist for TIME Magazine, your editor has given you the following assignment to be completed during your time in the 1960’s:

1)Look at some artists who are part of the Pop Art Movement

2)Interview an artist from the Pop Art Movement

3)List the time/era of the Pop Art Movement

4)Find one historical movement that contributed to the Pop Art Movement

5)Find one cultural movement that contributed to the Pop Art Movement

6)After your research on Pop Art, create an artwork reflecting the movement/artist to be displayed in TIME Magazine, along with an article about the artist you interviewed.

The Process

1) Look at the following artworks by some of the Leading Pop Artists of the 60’s. In your reporters notebook, explain 3-5characteristics of each artist’s work.

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichenstein

Wayne Thiebaud

2) After reviewing the artworks from the previous question, look back at Andy Warhol. You will need to: Evaluation -List 3 things that his artworks have in common -Interview Andy Conclusion -Fill out the Interview Sheet to help you write you article for TIME Magazine

3)When was the start of the Pop Art Movement?

4) Why did Pop Art happen? -Find a cultural movement during the 1950’s or 60’s that could have led to pop art and include it in your magazine article.

5) Find a historical event that happened during the Pop Art Movement. (Ex. End of the Cold War, Moon Landing, etc.)

6) Write an article for TIME Magazine using all of the information you found in the previous tasks. You can use WORD. You must also create your own artwork that reflects the movement and artist you learned about to be displayed with your article. You can use Credits ILLUSTRATOR.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You Title have traveled back to Introduction the 1960’s as a photojournalist for Task TIME Magazine. After Process this activity, you should have learned about the Evaluation Pop Art Movement and some of the leading Conclusion artists of this movement. Hopefully, you were able to create an artwork that was worthy of the cover page for TIME Magazine!

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