The document summarizes the student's research on Pop Art for an induction project. Specifically, it discusses: - Pop Art emerging in the 1950s-60s as a rebellion against traditional art, taking inspiration from popular culture like movies and advertising. - The student's group choosing to focus on American Pop Artist Andy Warhol, with research conducted on websites, books, and Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup cans. - An action plan developed to divide research tasks between group members and produce individual posters tied together by the Pop Art theme.

1. Induction Project
September 2019
CERTA L2 Developing Study Skills

2. Task 1 - Research
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Firstly we were given 3 art movements to
choose to base our poster on. This is my
research on Op Art, De stijl, and Pop Art. We
later as a group chose to base the poster on
Pop Art, narrowing down to American Pop
Art, specifically artist Andy Warhol’s work.

3. Task 1 – Research – Web source
• Emerging in the mid 1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in America, Pop Art reached its peak in
the 1960s.
• Rebelled against dominant and traditional approaches to art and culture
• Inspiration came from sources such as Hollywood movies, advertising, product packaging, pop
music and comic books for their imagery.
• In 1957, pop artist Richard Hamilton listed the ‘Characteristics of Pop Art’, which read as follows:
“Pop Art is: Popular (designed for a mass audience), Transient (short-term solution), Expendable
(easily forgotten), Low cost, Mass produced, Young (aimed at youth), Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky,
Glamorous, Big business…”
• Pop art took art into new areas of subject matter and developed new ways of presenting it in art.
Pop art can be seen as one of the first embodiments of postmodernism.
Title/Weblink/Date accessed: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/pop-art
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4. American Pop Vs. British Pop
• British pop is often seen as distinctive from American pop
although they were inspired by similar subjects.
• In the Us, pop style depicted the visual world in a recognisable
way and used hard edges and distinctive shapes to move away
from abstract expressionism.
• In Britain, the movement was more academic in its approach.
While employing irony and parody, it focused more on what
American pop imagery represented, and its power in
manipulating people’s lifestyles.
• A very credible and inspiring pop artist is American artist, Andy
Warhol.
• American artists
were inspired by
what they saw and
the society that they
lived in, and their
experiences living
within that culture.
• Early pop in Britain
was fuelled by
American pop
culture viewed from
a distance and so
there is a clear
difference between
the pieces.
Title/Weblink/Date accessed:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-
terms/p/pop-art

5. Task 1 – Research – Summary of Pop Art
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Weblink: https://www.theartstory.org/movement/pop-art/

6. Task 1 – Research – Book source
• We chose to do Andy Warhol as the focus artist as he is the most
well-known and iconic pop artist. This book includes a photo of his
work and information about him as an artist.
• “It was fabulous: an art opening with no art” – Andy Warhol,
describing his Campbell’s Soup can artwork, 1968.
Book title: Pop Art Author: Tilman Osterwold Library location: 2nd Floor Library
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7. Task 1 – Research – Book source
• This book contains numerous
examples of Andy Warhol’s work.
We chose to study Andy Warhol
because he is the most
influential and well-known pop
artist.
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Book title/Author + Library location: Series and Singles by Andy Warhol, 709.2 WAR (2nd Floor Library)

8. Task 2a – Idea Generation [individual]
• I decided to use Pop Art
typography for the title to tie in
with the overall theme. This will
be the group’s non digital element
of the project. I also decided to
put this against a Pop Art
background so they fit together
and, in a way, create my own pop
art, as it was based on
advertisement in the beginning.

9. Task 2a – Idea Generation [group]
• Together as a group, we are sharing the theme of Pop Art and have all
done individual research on the theme in order to put those ideas
together and create individual pieces to all tie together into one
category. The subject that ties the pieces together is the focus on
American Pop Artist Andy Warhol, hence the name of the exhibition
Warhol.

10. Task 2b – Action Plan/Schedule
Session Activity Who is responsibile
1 Research (Books) Olivia
2 Research (Books) Harry
3 Research (Online) Gabby
4 Research (Online) Maddy
5 Title (Non Digital) Gabby
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11. Task 2b – Action Plan/Schedule
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• We stuck to this action plan as we had half of the team on
researching online and the other half researching in books. This made
it more efficient as we always had a team mate to help us if we got
stuck.
• I drew out the title that everyone used in their poster, which helped
because we then all had our non digital element and also helped
make our posters seem similar even though we were creating
individual pieces of work.

12. Task 2c – Planning
• We decided to use the Pop Art font in the title as it links to the theme
of the Pop Art era. I decided to use a cartoon character in the style of
Pop art to hold the poster, so it looks a bit more gimmicky, as Warhol
described it.
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13. Task 2c – Planning
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I decided to look at some different
backgrounds I could use to set the
theme of Pop Art, and resulted in these
ideas:
I ended up deciding that this background
suits best, as I thought it would be great for
the poster to look like a Pop Art character
was holding it.

14. Task 4 – Production/Final Products
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See You There!

15. Task 5 – Evaluation – Problem Solving
• Describe three problems you faced in your project and how you
solved these
• 1
• One of our group members didn’t show up so I had to do online research myself. This was a bit slower but I
was able to provide the group with enough information.
• 2
• We had trouble finding book resources, but we shared with another team that were doing the same art
movement as us.
• 3
• Trouble with the computers and Photoshop, but we were able to combat this by learning how to work
Photoshop through the internet.
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16. Task 5 – Evaluation – Working with others
• Choose three aspects of your production where you worked well with
your team and this benefited the project
• 1
• Making the title: we worked closely in order for me to draw the title as we all wanted it.
• 2
• Research: we all did our individual research and put the information together to make our time useful and
efficient.
• 3
• Helping to design each other’s posters: we all had input in each other’s posters to make them as creative as
possible.
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17. Task 5 – Evaluation - Feedback
• Discuss the feedback you received from your tutor during the project
and how you used this to improve the project
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18. Task 5 – Evaluation – Active Engagement
• Define active engagement in your studies and briefly explain how you
used it in this project
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19. Task 5 – Evaluation
Accessing and storing information
• Explain where the books/resources are for your area in the LC
• Explain how to take a book/resource out of the LC
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20. Task 5 – Evaluation
Accessing and storing information
• Explain where to store electronic information on the college network
• Explain where you upload work when it is completed
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21. Task 6 - How do you learn best?
• Explain some of the ways you think you learn best [refer to the VAK
questionnaire results in tutorial]:
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22. Task 6 - How do you learn best?
• What makes it hard for you to study?
• What strategies do you think would benefit your studies?
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