Create this new H@H project along with Lisa starting Saturday, November 20 at 10:15 am!
Watch the video right here or on the Museum’s YouTube Channel.
Project Overview:
Join educator Lisa Sayedi and learn about Claes Oldenburg’s The Flying Pizza from the Museum’s Permanent Collection. Get inspired by this whimsical work of art and create your own unique collage!
Materials:
- white paper
- pencil
- eraser
- scissors
- tape
- colored pencils or your choice of coloring materials (markers or crayons)
Key Concepts:
- abstract
- composition
- storytelling
- details
Discussion:
Today we are going to be looking at Claes Oldenburg’s print Flying Pizza. Printmaking is where you can make several prints, kind of like a stamp of the same image! Pop art, which is short for “popular art”, featured common household objects and consumer products like Coca-Cola and Campbell’s Soup cans, as well as forms of media—such as comics, newspapers, and magazines—recognizable to the masses.
Have you ever seen a flying pizza before? Oldenburg is making an everyday object that we all know and love to do something out of the ordinary. Having an object perform an abstract action is Oldenburg’s unique way of using storytelling in his artwork. What do you think the story of this flying pizza could be about?
We will be getting inspired by Oldenburg and creating our own unique project that is going to “fly”!
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