SAINTANDREWSCHOOL

Pop Art art http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm

Pop art is a modern art movement, started in the 1950s, which uses the imagery, styles, and themes of advertising, mass media, and popular culture. Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterised a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and the Beatles. Pop Art was brash, young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment. It included different styles of painting and sculpture from various countries, but what they all had in common was an interest in mass-media, mass-production and mass-culture.

 

ARTIST: http://www.biography.com/people/roy-lichtenstein-9381678

Roy Lichtenstein 

Roy Lichtenstein Was an Illustrator, Painter.

Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist best known for his boldly-colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27, 1923, and grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In the 1960s, Lichtenstein became a leading figure of the new Pop Art movement. Inspired by advertisements and comic strips, Lichtenstein's bright, graphic works parodied American popular culture and the art world itself. He died in New York City on September 29, 1997.

 

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ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT: "My Pop Art Bottle"

Roy Lichtenstein used something called "benday dots" to create his art. They are kind of like pixels in how they create color when put close together (from far away, they look colored in....up close, they look like just dots). This method is used in creating comics. You will be using the same method to create your final project using a beverage bottle of your choice.

 

MATERIALS:

2 - 9"x12" pieces of white paper, a beverage bottle (not a picture),

eraser, graph paper, hole punch, pencil, colored pencils and markers, black sharpie.

 

Instructions/ Procedures: www.artteachersdiary.com

1. Practice drawing your bottle. Fold a piece of 9"x12" paper in half and try to draw only one half of the bottle on one side of the folded line. This will help you get the symmetry correct.

2. Draw the other side of your bottle to match the opposite side. Check the top and bottom of the bottle to make sure they are curved and showing correct perspective.

3.Trace your drawing onto a new sheet of paper. Draw the details of your bottle-- logos, fluid ounces, slogans, designs, etc. 

4. Color your whole picture LIGHTLY with colored pencils. You are required to mix the primary colors of colored pencils at least once on your drawing. If you have black on your bottle I encouraged you to choose another color, as it covers up your benday dots so you can't see them. Please make sure you have color on the entire page.

5. Make a benday dot stencil. Take your graph paper and punch holes on every other box of the graph. Repeat this on the next row but skip the first box creating a checker board patteren with dots. You will only be able to do a couple of rows.

6. Next, you will begin coloring in the benday dots with markers . This will be the most time-consuming part of the lesson. Place your beday dot stencil on the top of your paper and trace the dots with pencil. Keep moving the stencil down to complete the dots on the entire paper. Fill each dot with the appropriate color marker. When Benday Dots are complete outline all your pencil lines in sharpie to really make it pop. 

7. Display your work by securing it to a background of construction paper (your choice of color) but make sure the border around the are work is consistent all the way around.

9.Finally, write a 250 word description of your work, why did you choose this era, what was most difficult about completing the project, what was most enjoyable about working on the project, in what ways does your project fit into the era you chose. Type your paper in "Arial font 14", 

 

 

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