4th graders learned all about pop art while studying Andy Warhol. This movement was born in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and was based on American pop culture. It consisted of paintings and artworks in which commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) were used as subjects.

Ask any 4th grader, and they could tell you that Andy Warhol was born in Pennsylvania, and he was the best-known artist of the Pop art movement.  He was most known for choosing an American product, like a soup can or a box of soap, and repeating it over and over and over again. By doing this he felt he was expressing how boring and empty American culture really was.  Also, by repeating the image over and over, he became less attached to it and more bored of it. (Thus, the image was reduced to a cultural icon that reflected both the supposed emptiness of American material culture and the artist's emotional noninvolvement with the product.)