Andy Warhol Pop Art PowerPoint

How is this Andy Warhol Pop Art KS1 PowerPoint useful?

You can use this Andy Warhol Pop Art KS1 PowerPoint to teach your students all about the famous artist’s work and the style of art that he created.

This PowerPoint includes examples of famous Andy Warhol art and explains the techniques he used to create it. It also contains a group discussion activity that you can use to get your class talking about pop art and what it means.

Why not encourage your students to make their own art inspired by Warhol with this worksheet? Your pupils can express their creativity and think about what they’ve learned about pop art.

Why not inject some Andy Warhol Art into your home?

You can support your child’s learning of famous art movements and artists with this Andy Warhol Pop Art resource for KS1 in the comfort of your home!

It’s quick and easy to download and full of interesting information for your child to learn about. It covers some of Warhol’s most famous works and how he used bright colours and repeated images to create them.

You could try making your own insipred Andy Warhol pop art at home with your child too!

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Who is Andy Warhol?

Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid illustrator in New York even before he began to make art for galleries.

Warhol became captivated by Marilyn Monroe’s lavish, fairytale lifestyle and wished to depict her as a goddess that everybody envied. This makes sense, since he loved the reckless, happy-go-lucky party lifestyle that rock stars have.

He wanted his women to look like beauty icons, hence there were never any blemishes, spots, lines or ‘bags’ underneath their eyes. His screen-printed images of Monroe, as well as other projects such as Campbell’s soup cans, quickly became synonymous with the pop art movement itself in the 1960s. 

Much of Warhol's work explores themes like mass consumerism, celebrity culture, and artistic expression. 

Warhol progressed into many different forms of art, such as film, video installations, photography, performance art, sculptures painting, printmaking, music and writing. He communicated his art in all sorts of forms, becoming a great source of inspiration for not only prints and painting, but for fashion. His first job was actually for fashion magazines and illustrating adverts for them.

Warhol was sick in bed for several months due to catching a potentially fatal disease affecting the nervous system (Chorea, or St Vitus' Dance), at just age eight. His mother gave him drawing lessons during this time, which soon became his favourite hobby. His mother then bought him a camera at age nine and there, he took up photography too, since he was also an avid film enthusiast. He even made a little home-made darkroom in his basement!

Some of Warhol’s most famous pieces of art are:

• Flowers (1964)
• Coca Cola (3) (1962)
• Eight Elvises (1963)
• 32 Canvases of Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962)
• Marilyn Diptych (1962)

Andy Warhol died in 1987 but his artistic style, works and legacy are still a big part of popular culture to this day.