This document provides information about pop art and instructions for creating pop art-inspired soft sculptures. It defines pop art as an art movement from the 1950s-1970s in which artists used everyday popular objects and figures in their brightly colored, oversized art. The document then discusses pop artists Claes Oldenburg and Heidi Kenney before giving directions for designing and constructing a soft sculpture of a favorite food, character, or product using simple shapes and filling to create 3D forms from 2D outlines.

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Pop Art

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What is pop art?

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Pop Art – “POP”ular Culture
Art movement from 1955-1970’s
Pop artists used popular objects
and people of everyday life in their
art
Bright colors, unusual size,
repetition

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Pop Art and Plush Soft
Sculpture!

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Claes Oldenburg

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Heidi Kenney

7. + Project Vocabulary
 Sculpture - Art that is 3-
dimentions, and takes
up space
 Shape – a line that
connects, encloses
space, 2-d
 Form – 3-d shape

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How are you going to turn 2d shape
into form to create a 3d sculpture?
Sew together Fill to create form

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How can you turn something
popular into a Soft Sculpture?
Planning:
brainstorm ideas for your sculpture
Favorite foods, characters, products
Remember to KEEP IT SIMPLE! Not a lot
of detail or words

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Animals
Food
Characters

11. + Sketch your Ideas
Sketch the shape of your
sculpture
 The main outline of
your subject
 This shape will be cut
out two times to sew
together
Add details to your
sketch that you will
add to your sculpture.

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Citations
 http://www.boumbang.com/claes-oldenburg/
 http://www.mypapercrane.com/blog/topics/art/
 http://www.eyeonasia.co.uk/dolls-plush-toys-c19/tomy-
pokemon-pikachu-big-plush-toy-p2926
 http://www.eyeonasia.co.uk/dolls-plush-toys-c19/tomy-
pokemon-pikachu-big-plush-toy-p2926
 http://www.artwithmrsnguyen.com/search/label/5th%20grade
 http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/middle/middle23.html