Sam Parish Year 8

Artworks tell us the time and place in which they were created. Discuss how using TWO Pop Art images of your choice.

Pop artworks obviously tell us about the time and place in which they were created. Roy Lichtenstein’s “Blamm” and Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans” are great examples of how pop art shows us the time and place in which it was created. Lichtenstein’s and Warhol’s artworks show us about America in the 1950’s and 60’s. The artworks show us how the end of the war meant big change. It lead to people having too much money for what they could handle and started the baby boom, which is why there was a rise in population. Pop art shows us an image from the popular culture of the time and it did this by bright bold colours and Benday dots.The 1950’s and 60’s in America was a time of great change. The change emerged as the bad times like WWI and WWII as well as the Great Depression had passed and people had fully changed, pay slips came from the wars and that lead to the economy rising. People began wanting their lives to be as fast and as simple as they could be. This is why supermarkets came in and fast foods as it was very convenient. With

Notes:Sam has done this introduction very well. Remember, this is the

Point part of the essay. He has accurately given his opinion and stance on the question.

He has successfully introduced the artists and artworks.

He has provided background information on the era he is discussing.

He has given evidence of what materials are typical to pop art.

This is the Explain part of the essay. He begun, again, by addressing the question as he introduces the paragraph.

He describes the era and provides examples of this era.

Sam Parish Year 8more money and time people left their old livesand went into singing, dancing and the rest. Asthe money amount grew, so did the amount and size of houses. As people became more dependent on convenience the inventions became smarter and smarter. This also created an imbalance as people had bigger families and as they had more money they just wanted to spend it which lead to a lot of waste.“Campbell’s Soup Cans” shows us 32 soup cans and they are 8 across and 4 down. But there is a key difference as all the soup cans look the same but they all have different flavours. From far away the soup cans just look half red and half white soup cans; nothing more, nothing less. The repetition of the cans makes people think the cans are all the same, but really they are very different. It looks like the cans are stacked like on a supermarket shelf.“Campbell’s Soup Cans” shows many pop art techniques such as repetition, which symbolizes how mass production had become a massive thing as well as supermarkets, which is shown as it looks like stacked shelves. This shows that there was an increase in wealth which lead to a craving for convenience. Convenience was amassive thing in the 1950’s and 60’s which isshown in this picture as soup in a can is a massive

To sum this paragraph up, Sam could have added the artists and artworks he chose to analyse, however, his introduction included this information, making this paragraph sound.

This is the first Description paragraph.

Sam has done really well in describing exactly what he could see.

This is the first Evidence paragraph.

Sam has started by identifying symbols, and drawing his own interpretation of what it might be saying about the 1950’s and 60’s in America.

He introduces concepts effectively and provides solid interpretations.

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convenience. “Campbell’s Soup Cans” alsoshows a slice of suburban life as a trend had started and people followed. The new trend which was to have a big house with a new car, which meant as you drove through the streets of America, all the houses were very similar just like all the soup cans being very similar. Also, as a technique, is how if you look at the soup cans closely they get lighter from left to right, which shows how America was coming out of the dark times, which is WWI, WWII and the Great Depression. So the cans are showing that they are out of the dark times and into the better times like the economic boom. During the war, factories produced goods for troops. After the war, the same technology was used for a civilian, everyday life.In the image “Blamm” by Roy Lichtenstein we see a bomber upside down with the pilot flying out of the seat. The image has an explosion based colour scheme. The colours mostly used are reds and yellows and also black. The bomber is number 3 and is under intense fire. The word “BLAM” is used in the top right hand corner. The plane is blue and white with a blue star on the left wing and a red star on the right wing. Benday dots are also used to have an effect as well as the comic book style.

“Blamm” shows us the typical Roy Lichtenstein

Sam has done a really great job in analysing this artwork. However, he could have added a concluding/linking sentence.

Again, he writes a Description for his second artwork.

Sam has done this description with more detail than his first. He has described the exact colours, style, and actions within the artwork.

Sam Parish Year 8pop art, as he has used Benday dots to show how the 1950’s and 60’s was a time of mass production. By using the dots, it shows how important the media became with celebrities hitting a boom. Another typical technique of Lichtenstein is the comic book style which he has used to show how a new group had formed which was called “The Teenagers”. This was a big thing as aged in this teenage group before were either at war fighting for their country or working to stop their families from going broke. But now, they had more spare time as everyone was rich. So, the comic book style represents the new teenage group as they loved comics. Also, Lichtenstein tells us about how after the war, it was made into entertainment for everyone. He uses bright colours to make it more interesting and makes it more understandable for younger generations.In conclusion, it is obvious that culture is shown in pop art through many techniques.

This is Sam’s Evidence paragraph for the second artwork he chose.

Much the same, he pools together background information about the artist’s typical practice, finds evidence within the artwork, and links to the essay question.

He has given information about the time, and identified aspects of the artwork that address these ideas.

Due to time constraints, Sam didn’t finish his conclusion paragraph.

He could of readdressed his main points and written a couple of sentences about the artist/artworks he analysed.

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The Assessment Question:

Artworks can tell us about the time and place in which they

were created. Discuss how, using TWO Pop Art images of your choice.