Claes Oldenburg Hamburger Texture

Docent:  Alicia Frank

5th Grade

Medium:  Construction Paper, Fabric, tissue paper, yarn

Reason for Lesson:  Lesson was designed to teach the element of art - texture using the pop art sculpture style of artist, Claes Oldenburg.

Prep Time:  30 minutes

Preparation prior to the lesson:  Study pop art form Claes Oldenburg’s “Hamburger” sculpture.

Materials:

6 x 18 sheet of black paper

tan burlap, tissue paper, red felt, construction paper in different colors:  green, red, brown, white

book binding glue

Instructions to Lead Lesson:

Talk about Claes Oldenburg as an artist and specifically his “Hamburger” pop art sculpture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg

http://www.artnews.com/2013/04/08/restoring-oldenburg-burge/

 

The important techniques while creating our hamburger art are:

• The art must have a plate, a hamburger patty and a bun.
• You may be creative and embellish your hamburger with anything you’d like to add on top, but your creativity must be a food item. If you’d like ice cream and sardines on your hamburger...the creativity is up to you.
• When cutting and gluing the items onto the black construction paper mat do not glue the items flat.  Let the food fold and bend off the black mat.  Add texture by folding, wrinkling and bending the paper.  Add texture and shading details by using markers or crayons, or layering papers.  Make the food look tasty and real.

Blog of other 5th grade artist’s Hamburger

http://thecolorfulartpalette.blogspot.com/2014/01/week-20-and-21-half-through-school-year.html

(This art project is featured about half way down on the blog page...scroll down to find it)