Pop Art Food
Students will become influenced by the work of Pop
Artists of the 1960’s (such as Claes Oldenburg) and
create a ceramic piece that resembles food.
Students will be able to make better pieces of art after they create
three dimensional forms, work with glazing techniques and
become influenced by American artists of the past (Pop Artists)
Objectives- Students will be able to
• Critique Pop Art examples and view photographs of food to
create a sketch of your project.
• Implement planning - determine appropriate hand building
techniques to use for construction
• Create three dimensional structures that utilize additive and
subtractive sculpture methods
• Create ceramic works that deal with positive and negative
space and utilize techniques that incorporate tactile and implied
texture
• Gain an appreciation from artwork of the Pop Artists
• Select aesthetically pleasing glazes/and or under glazes
• Demonstrate craftsmanship in forming and glazing.
Know the Movement:
Pop Art was a visual arts movement of the 1950s and 1960s,
mainly in the United States and Britain. The images of pop art
(shortened from “popular art”) were taken from mass culture.
Some artists duplicated soup cans, comic strips, road signs,
and similar objects in paintings, collages, and sculptures.
Others incorporated the objects themselves into their paintings
or sculptures, sometimes in startlingly modified form.
You should also pay attention in the video as it
not only covers material about artists on this
project but for two projects in the near future
about Peter Max & Christo
Claes Oldbenburg
• Claes is a Swedish born American Pop Artist. He is mainly
known for his giant sculptures of common everyday subjects
Wayne Thiebaud
• Pronounced “Tee-bo” is an American painter whose most
famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and
lipstick. Throughout his early career he has worked for Disney
Studios, worked at diners (where he gained his appreciation
and fascination with food)
Compare & Contrast
Mmmmmh Food
• Utilize the pictures of Food to help create your sketch of
your desired Pop Art ceramic food
• Make several sketches of your food and select the one
that you like best
• As you are sketching, think about “how are you going to
be able to make it” out of clay
Assessment:
• Did student show an awareness of Pop
Art?
• Did student show initiative in planning an
executing an original design?
How does Andy Warhol’s 1968
painting “Campbell’s Soup I”
represent Pop Art?
How is it similar to Oldenburg
and Thiebaud’s work?
“Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes”
Andy Warhol
Warhol is probably the most infamous of all
of the Pop Artists. He is known for taking
mass consumer products such as
Campbell’s soup, Coca Cola, dollar bills
and Brillo pads and making them into
pieces of art such as through paintings or
silk screen prints.
His contribution to the movement brought
the question to many people of, “What is
art?” Warhol’s reply was: "Making money
is art, and working is art and good
business is the best art."
Pop Art food Assessment Rubric
Student Name:
Class Period:
Assignment:
Circle the number in pencil that best shows how well you feel that you completed that
criterion for the assignment.
Date Completed:
Excellent
Good
Average
Needs
Improvement
Criteria 1 – Designs - creativity - problem solving. Is work unique?
4
3
2
1
Criteria 2 – Construction –Is your work sturdy – or does it fall apart?
4
3
2
1
Criteria 3 – Aesthetics in glazing or underglazing - glaze application
4
3
2
1
Criteria 4 – Effort: took time to develop idea & complete project? (Didn’t rush.) Good
use of class time?
4
3
2
1
Criteria 5 – Craftsmanship – Neat, clean & complete? Skillful use of the art tools &
media?
4
3
2
1
Rate Yourself
YOUR TOTAL
Total Possible: 20
Student's Comments:
Teacher's Comments:
Teacher’s Rating
Grade
Objectives for today
• Select the best idea for project.
• Make clay food.
• Be sure to hollow forms to prevent blowups.
• Ice cream balls can be hollowed from the
bottom - or made a pinch pots and a straw
hole made where they are fused to bowl or
plate.
IMPORTANT TIPS WITH CLAY
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1. Things happen.
2. Life's not fair.
3. Art is temporary.
4. Air bubbles are your enemy.
5. Nothing should be thicker than your
thumb.
IMPORTANT PROCEDURES
ABOUT CLAY
• Clay, like our other mediums, tend to be very messy and take a
long time to clean
• DO NOT THROW CLAY or MAKE AN EXTENSIVE MESS
WITH IT. I have permission to send you to ISS for everyday that
we are working on this project if you misuse the supplies where
you will do an alternate book assignment on clay.
• If no one wants to confess who is making the mess with the
clay and if no one wants to help out cleaning – the class is done
• We all work together to clean up or is this project is over
• When you wash clumps of clay off of your hands, use the sink
in the Kiln room or you will clog the sinks
• Thoroughly clean all tools and area when you are done
Slurry and/or Slip
• Before we begin the construction of the pot, we are going to
create Slurry (aka Slip)
• Slurry is the basic “glue” that will hold the walls and other
extremities of the teapot together.
• Allow some scraps of clay to dry completely over several days,
then drop them into a container with just enough water to cover
them. They will quickly dissolve to create a slurry.
• By using slurry instead of water, you increase the ceramic
joint's strength, both in the building process and throughout the
pot's life.
Hand building techniques
• One of the easiest methods of
making slabs is to use a rolling pin.
Just be sure to rotate the slab as
you roll, rather like rolling out pie
dough.
• You can also use your hands
• Your goal is to get the slab flat,
even thickness and NO AIR
BUBBLES.
• Each slab must be slipped and
scored.
• Make body with slab or pinch
method (like a pinch pot).
Slump molding
• Bowls, plates, and platters
can easily be made by
slumping a slab into an
existing bowl or plate. Deep
bowls will require the slab to
be cut, removing excess clay,
in order to form smoothly into
the mold. Another method
would be to piece several
different slabs into the mold
to complete the form. In
either case, joints must be
firmly welded.
Creating a slab pot
• Even though the form of this slab pot is different from the one
you will make, it incorporates the important principles of:
SCORE, SLIP & STITCH
This artist started off with their base which they cut from a slab.
Smooth out the edges that were cut from the slab
THEN you will SCORE (scratch) marks that are no longer than ¼”
and no deeper than 1/16”
1. Here, the surface of the pot
was already scratched. Then
they scratched the surface of
the pellet that was going to be
glued. Then apply slip to the
pellet.
2. Apply slip to the
surface area where the
clay pellet will be
added.
3. Apply the pellet to the pot
and then gently stitch the
pellet to the surface.
Stitching involves pulling a
small amount of clay from
one piece to the other.
4. After you have
stitched smooth the
stitch marks. In this
final step the handle of
a clay needle is being
pressed into the pellet
to create yet another
impressed pattern.
Assessment:
• Did student show an awareness of Pop
Artists?
• Did student show initiative in planning an
executing an original design?
• Did student demonstrate knowledge of
forming techniques?
• Did student demonstrate skill and
craftsmanship in handling clay?
1. First make a ball of clay.
2. Insert your thumb
into the clay ball
until it is about 1/2"
from the bottom.
3. Begin pinching gently
at the bottom of your
pot. Rotate the pot and
continue as you pinch.
Notice the pot is held
upside down as you are
pinching.
4. Continue pinching and
gradually work your way
to the top edge. Your
goal is to create a wall
that is about 1/4" thick
and is even all around.
5. As you reach the top
you may notice some
small cracks forming.
6. Apply a small amount of
moisture (water) to the
surface and smooth the
edge.
7. Now your pinch pot is
ready for texturing,
piercing and sprigging.
8. You can texture
your pot with clay
stamps and an
assortment of found
objects.
19. The last technique you will
use to decorate the surface is
sprigging. In order to
accomplish this you must first
make slip. Slip is the glue we
use when joining two pieces of
clay. Place some small clay
pellets in water.
20. Smash the clay
pellets with your thumb
or use a wooden tool.
Continue mixing the slip
until it has the
consistency of thick
chocolate.
21. Here we are trying to
attach a small pellet of
clay in the center of one
of the impressed circles.
22. In order to do this you
must first scratch the
surface of the clay, rough it
up.
23. It is also necessary
to scratch the surface of
the pellet. Then apply
slip to the pellet.
24. Apply slip to the
surface area where the
clay pellet will be
added.
25. Apply the pellet to the
pot and then gently stitch
the pellet to the surface.
Stitching involves pulling a
small amount of clay from
one piece to the other.
26. After you have
stitched smooth the
stitch marks. In this
final step the handle of
a clay needle is being
pressed into the pellet
to create yet another
impressed pattern.
Assessment:
• Did student show an awareness of Pop
artists?
• Did student show initiative in planning an
executing an original design?
• Did student demonstrate knowledge of
forming techniques?
• Did student demonstrate skill and
craftsmanship in handling clay?
Under glazes and Speciality Glazes
• Everyone did the underglazing first and fired it on, then they
put shiny glazes over the fired on underglazes.
• Can use "fudge sauce" brown, "Pie crust" underglazes,
"Brownie" underglazes, "cherry red" fluxing underglaze, and
"whipped cream" specialty glaze.
• YOU MUST NOT put shiny glaze over unfired underglazes, and
NOT applying underglazes over a glaze
• Underglazes have to be fired separately and prior to applying
any shiny or matt glaze, they got it straight.
• Some students left their piecrust matt underglazes, brownies
were matt underglazes.
• IMPORTANT NOTE: When using underglazes, we had success
applying gloss glaze over them (when underglazes had dried)
then firing. Students were just careful not to lift the underglaze
when they applied the shiny glaze. This cut down on the
amount of firings necessary to finish the projects.
Assessment:
• Did student show an awareness of Pop
artists?
• Did student show initiative in planning an
executing an original design?
• Did student demonstrate knowledge of
forming techniques?
• Did student demonstrate skill and
craftsmanship in handling clay?
• Did student demonstrate skill in glazing
Pop Art food Assessment Rubric
Student Name:
Class Period:
Assignment:
Circle the number in pencil that best shows how well you feel that you completed that
criterion for the assignment.
Date Completed:
Excellent
Good
Average
Needs
Improvement
Criteria 1 – Designs - creativity - problem solving. Is work unique?
4
3
2
1
Criteria 2 – Construction –Is your work sturdy – or does it fall apart?
4
3
2
1
Criteria 3 – Aesthetics in glazing or underglazing - glaze application
4
3
2
1
Criteria 4 – Effort: took time to develop idea & complete project? (Didn’t rush.) Good
use of class time?
4
3
2
1
Criteria 5 – Craftsmanship – Neat, clean & complete? Skillful use of the art tools &
media?
4
3
2
1
Rate Yourself
YOUR TOTAL
Total Possible: 20
Student's Comments:
Teacher's Comments:
Teacher’s Rating
Grade