Top tips to help your teen master pop art

A popular art movement which emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1950s, pop art still continues to hold its place of significance in art. It redefined the notion of what art could be by making an unprecedented departure from traditional fine art. Popular art tried to embrace the unprecedented in art by incorporating kitschy stylistics and providing subtle commentary on culture. 

What made this art form even more compelling, especially for the younger generation, was the fact that it blatantly rejected elitism and made it more widely consumable. As the name suggests, it was “popular,” and hence, it made an effort to appeal to everyone, not just a select, exclusive part of the population. Pop art included imagery, labelling and logos- all of which are widely popular in teenage culture and young cultural stylistics even today. Here are a few tips on how you can help your teen master pop art. 

Encourage your budding artist to keep up with pop culture

One of the main aspects to making pop art is including a representation or a reflection of popular culture. Encourage your child to be up-to-date with popular trends and themes in popular culture as a way to gather ideas which can be used in his pop art projects. Using ideas which have just surfaced is a strategic method to ensure that the theme selected is not repetitive.  

Teach her keep a keen eye on the ordinary

Presenting ordinary things in a unique way is a distinguishing feature of pop art. Ordinary objects which are often overlooked in general find their way into pop art and are given personality using satire or irony. Sometimes for this, the material is used out of context. Teach your young artist to be a keen observer of things around her. A good activity for this is to ask her to look at any generic object and imagine what it would say if it was not inanimate. This will help her create a personality and/or satire related to the object. 

Introduce him to online art tools

Pop art uses a lot of duplicating, saturated colour effects, overlaying, collaging, etc. Thus, it is important for your child to be acquainted with using different applications or software for the same. There are numerous editing applications available online, which makes it easier for beginners to practice editing. PicsArt is one such popular platform among others.