Project 4
Andy Warhol Self Portrait Prints
Materials: Pen, Ink, Black paper, Photograph of yourself, and Scratch foam board
Vocabulary: Color, Composition, Shape, Andy Warhol, Pop Art First Day: Learn About Andy Warhol and Pop Art, Print Picture Second Day: Create stamp with Scratch foam board and create prints Third Day: Continue creating prints and mount artwork Blog |
Pop Art & Andy Warhol
Pop art is now most associated with the work of New York artists of the early 1960s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg, but artists who drew on popular imagery were part of an international phenomenon in various cities from the mid-1950s onwards. Following the popularity of the Abstract Expressionists, Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery (drawn from mass media and popular culture) was a major shift for the direction of modernism. The subject matter became far from traditional "high art" themes of morality, mythology, and classic history; rather, Pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art. Perhaps owing to the incorporation of commercial images, Pop art has become one of the most recognizable styles of modern art.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American Pop artist best known for his prints and paintings of consumer goods, celebrities, and photographed disasters. One of the most famous and influential artists of the 1960s, he pioneered compositions and techniques that emphasized repetition and the mechanization of art. |
Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) By the 1960s, the New York art world was in a rut as Abstract Expressionism’s explosion of the 1940s and '50s had grown stale. Warhol was one of the artists hungry to reintroduce imagery to his work. The gallery owner and interior designer Muriel Latow presented Warhol with the idea of painting soup cans, when she suggested to him that he should paint objects that people use every day. (It is rumoured that Warhol ate the soup for lunch on a daily basis). |
Because Warhol was already an extremely successful consumer ad designer, he used the techniques of his trade to create an image that was both easily recognizable and visually stimulating. He was well versed in the concepts of the advertising industry, which was currently invading the American psyche with its promise of happiness through abundant consumerism. He mirrored this by painting soup cans on thirty-two canvases aligned on a wall to denote the experience of being in a well-lit supermarket. With this installation, Warhol became credited with envisioning a new type of art that glorified (and also criticized) the nation’s impetus toward consumption.
Warhol would go on to say about his ethos of putting ordinary items front and center, "I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about."
Warhol would go on to say about his ethos of putting ordinary items front and center, "I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about."
Project 3
Gingerbread Village Perspective Drawing
Materials: Pencil, Watercolor paper, Watercolor set
Vocabulary: Perspective, Space, Line, Composition
First Day: Learn & Review Perspective, Sketch/ Design Gingerbread Village
Second Day: Add Watercolor
Third Day: Blog
Gingerbread Inspiration
Project 2
Diego Rivera Collaborative Mural
Materials: 12" x 12" white paper, pencil, oil pastels or colored pencils, Diego Rivera painting
Vocabulary: Mural, Fresco, Shape, Color, Value, Grid, Unity, Collaborative, Cubism
First Day: Learn about Diego Rivera & Start Sketching
Second Day: Add color & assemble
Diego Rivera
Art in Europe
Although Rivera continued to work on his art in Mexico, he dreamed of studying in Europe. Finally, Teodora A. Dehesa, the governor of Veracruz, Mexico, who was known for funding artists, heard about Rivera's talent and agreed to pay for his studies in Europe. In 1907 Rivera went to Madrid, Spain, and worked in the studio of Eduardo Chicharro. Then in 1909 he moved to Paris, France. In Paris he was influenced by impressionist painters, particularly Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). Later he worked in a postimpressionist style inspired by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Georges Seurat (1859–1891), Henri Matisse (1869–1954), Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), and Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920).
As Rivera continued his travels in Europe, he experimented more with his techniques and styles of painting. The series of works he produced between 1913 and 1917 are cubist (a type of abstract art usually based on shapes or objects rather than pictures or scenes) in style. Some of the pieces have Mexican themes, such as the Guerrillero (1915). By 1918 he was producing pencil sketches of the highest quality, an example of which is his self-portrait. He continued his studies in Europe, traveling throughout Italy learning techniques of fresco (in which paint is applied to wet plaster) and mural painting before returning to Mexico in 1921.
Murals and frescoes
Rivera believed that all people (not just people who could buy art or go to museums) should be able to view the art that he was creating. He began painting large murals on walls in public buildings. Rivera's first mural, the Creation (1922), in the Bolívar Amphitheater at the University of Mexico, was the first important mural of the twentieth century. The mural was painted using the encaustic method (a process where a color mixed with other materials is heated after it is applied). Rivera had a great sense of color and an enormous talent for structuring his works.
In his later works he used historical, social, and political themes to show the history and the life of the Mexican people. Between 1923 and 1926 Rivera created frescoes in the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City. The frescoes in the Auditorium of the National School of Agriculture in Chapingo (1927) are considered his masterpiece. The general theme of the frescoes is human biological and social development. The murals in the Palace of Cortés in Cuernavaca (1929-1930) depict the fight against the Spanish conquerors.
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