Onomatopoeia Pop Art

 CP 5.7 Create visual art works that express ideas about, and draw inspiration from, pop culture.

CP 5.8 Create art works using a variety of visual art concepts (e.g. graphic design, photography), and media (e.g.. mixed media, paint).

(f) Experiment with pop art styles in 2-D and 3-D

(k) Describe meaning of own art work.

(b) Explore colour relationships in the environment in pop art styles.

Assess art on use of primary colours.

Following instructions.

Instruct before hand out things.

Show them my art with instructions (each step I took).

Could add more backgrounds or different text in background.
Lists of words provided.
Patterns in primary colours cut (just need to add word and glue).

White paper for each student.

Coloured paper for backgrounds (red, yellow, blue, or black)
Scissors.
Markers.
Glue.
Powerpoint.

·       Reaction against traditional (sometimes thought to be boring) art.

·       Often represents objects or scenes from everyday life.

·       Includes bright colours like yellow, red, and blue. Does anyone know what type of colours these are?  Primary colours.

·       Often marked by clear lines.

·       Famous artists: Andy Warhol and Roy Litchenstein.

  State: Today, we are going to create Pop Art here.  But first we need to learn one more word:

Does anyone know what this word means?
Onomatopoeia.  Practice saying with the class – break into syllables.

•       Words whose sound is close to the sound they represent.

•       Sound words whose pronunciation to actual sound/noise they represent.

•       Often words mean nothing more than the sound it makes.

•       Can be water sounds (squirt), vocal sounds (grunt), collision sounds (bang), air sounds (whoosh).

•       Examples – Boing, Bang, Swoosh, Snap, Poww!

Ask class if they can think of any more words? Write them on the board.  Aim to stay away from animal sounds for this project.

More examples:

Splash                     Bang                 gasp                     whiff

Crunch                    Ouch                  thump                 whizz

Crack                       boom                 thud                   dribble

Splat                         zam                   ding

Woosh                      pow                 clang

Crunch                     snap                 bam

Vroom                      argh                 chatter

Zap                           buzz                bang

What                        crash                boing

Zaap                         bang                swoosh

If confusion, watch short video of Onomatopoeia. 

 When we make Onomatopoeia Pop Art, we need to choose a word and surround it by a pattern that suits the word.

So examples on power point – point out the curved lines around quiet words like “shhh…” and “poof”.  Also, the straight lines on words like “Bang!” “Pow!”

On the power point show an outline and ask what types of words would fit in this outline (see power point)

State: What onomatopoeia would fit for this picture?  Would crack?  Swoosh?  No, it is an intense word like BANG! Or POP!

Announce that we will be making Onomatopoeia Pop Art.

Show art piece included that I made.

Dialogue: See mine, I used the word BANG! I chose to represent it by harsh, straight lines around it because that represents that word for me.  If I would have done the word “Poof” – what kind of lines would you draw?  Yeah, maybe curved ones:

Now were going to make our own.

Instructions:

1.     Choose a word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

2.     Write the word in bubble letters in large print on your paper.

3.     Draw a pattern around the word. (remember to use soft/curved or harsh/straight lines depending on your word choice.

4.     Colour the word one colour.

5.     Make a pattern around it a different colour

6.     Then colour the background another colour.

7.     Trace around different colours in black.

Note:
ONLY primary colours.  Can add more patterns instead of just one.  Can glue finished product onto primary colour paper or black after.

While explaining instructions, point out the steps on the artwork I created.

English Language Arts Connection: When finished: Write a sentence on the back about why you used the colours and lines you did.

For example, I would write:  I chose harsh, straight lines because the work Bang! Is a loud exciting word?  The yellow and blue contrasted nicely so I put them beside one another.

Give every student a white piece of paper.  Tell them to take out a red, blue, and yellow marker.  Let them start.

Walk around monitoring the progress of students.

 Closure ( 3-4 min)

Review knowledge by looking at photos and words on power point of whether they are or are not Pop art and Onomatopoeia.