Pop Goes the World! Discovering Pop Art Methods and Meaning.

Task

Local Museum is search of a team to assist in curating a Pop Art Exhibit!

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Task

A Local Museum needs to Acquire works of Pop Art for an Exhibit! 
 
 You have been chosen to help design this exhibit !  We will need teams to assist with this.  Each team member must take on a role of either,  Art collector, Museum curator,  Exhibit Construction crew, or publicity /poster design for this exhibit. You and your team must come up with a name for the exhibit, that says something the type of art it is!  Be creative!
 
Art Collector -Must  research and  acquire pop art pieces for his or her collection using the web and document information.  Title, name of artist, medium and date when art was created and subject matter.

Museum Curator -  Must work with the art collector and select which pieces from their collection that will work for the exhibit. Decide if the piece fits the criteria for an example of Pop art.  Explain reasons why pieces will work or not. As well as research information about the artist.
 
Art Exhibition crew-  you are responsible for placement of the artwork so you must know the sizes of each piece and how much space they will take up, you will work closely with the museum curator.  The Art exhibition crew must also create a 3- dimensional Pop art display for the opening of the exhibit, or. 
A layout,  diagram, or floor plan of where pieces will be placed.

Publicity-
You are responsble for creating a Poster which will publicize the exhibit.  You must also take into consideration, the style and medium that was used during the Pop Art movement .  So Publicity will also need to to be familliar with pop artwork and advertising poster design  of the time period in which it began this is part of the criteria your poster design, your poster should have elements of Pop art design!

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Here are some example's of a Pop Art .  Does it look familliar? 
 
What makes these look different from  earlier  works of art we have studied in our class? 

This Web Quest will consist of both group and individual work. 

 This Web Quest will be worth 200 points.

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