Studio

Art
1/3 to 1/6
Pop Art
Ms. Hart

Tuesday 1-3
Aim: What is the Pop Art Portrait project?
Do Now: Make a list of important POP culture
icons

New Year, New Sketchbooks! See the January Checklist! Two drawings are due Friday Jan 6
Tomorrow: Course Selection Presentation, due tomorrow portrait reference for project.

What is Pop Art?

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in
the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in
the United States.
Identifiable imagery (drawn from mass
media and popular culture)
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.
The majority of Pop artists began their careers
in commercial art: Andy Warhol was a highly
successful magazine illustrator and graphic
designer; Ed Ruscha was also a graphic
designer, and James Rosenquist started his
career as a billboard painter.

What design principles can

be found in our Pop-Art
Portraits?
Harmony: Use of a color scheme to help create the sense that all parts of the
image work together
Repetition: Use of one art element throughout the design- for example the
dots in Lichtensteins work shows repetition of the circle shape. This also
creates a motif because it reoccurs throughout his work.
Proportion/Scale: Understanding the size relationships found in an image.
The scale of the image will change from the reference photo to the larger size
of the paper when using a grid. Using one part of the face to help you
understand the sizes and placement of other features of the face will help you
draw portraits more accurately.
Variety: Use of subjective colors of different hues, values and intensities will
make this project have more interest.

Roy Lichtenstein
Painter, Sculptor, Printmaker
Began hiding images of comic strips
in his artwork
Painted already famous or well
known cartoons, and comics with
simplified colors and made them
big
Turned paintings by other famous
artists into his comic book style
Use Ben-day dots as pattern to
create the illusion of a newspaper
cartoon that has been magnified

What artists inspire our Pop-Art Portraits?

Close ups/Comic Style

Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol said, I dont think art
should be for the select few., I think it
should be for the mass of the
American people.
Andy Warhol would make multiple
images of the same object or person
but change the colors. He loved
repetition.

These portraits are all of the

actress Marilyn Monroe.
What makes these portraits
interesting to look at?
What design principles are
evident here?

Chuck Close
Photorealism: painting subjects of an
everyday nature in a highly realistic way so
that the painting appears to be a photo
Uses a grid on the photo and on the canvas
to copy the photo, box by box
In 1988, he suffered from a severe spinal
artery collapse which paralyzed him from
the neck down.
He had many learning disabilities
throughout his education, and also is
diagnosed with prosopagnosia- facial
blindness.
He continues to paint by altering his
painting technique so that small shapes of
color appear to blend together into a
realistic painting.

Proportion/Scale- how is this being used in Chuck Closes artwork?

Appropriation in Art
Pop Artists often used pre-existing objects or images in their artwork, that were not there
own and without permission to use them.
By altering the images significantly, changing the style, and transforming them into
something new, the artists are appropriating the imagery and making it their own.
You can use Google to find a pre-existing image of a portrait, you can do a self-portrait,
you can take a picture your self of someone you know, etc.
Who will you depict in your Pop Art Portrait, and how will you transform the image into
your own unique work of art?

Wed 1-4
Aim: How can you be introduced to the courses
offered next year?
Do Now: make your selection for your pop-art
portrait and find the image on your phone.

New Year, New Sketchbooks! See the January Checklist! Two drawings are due Friday Jan 6

Thurs 1-5
Aim: How can you grid your final copy paper
and practice using a grid to draw?
Do Now: continue the practice grid drawings.

New Year, New Sketchbooks! See the January Checklist! Two drawings are due Friday Jan 6
Grid should be placed on portrait photo and large paper, labeled on both with a
number system by the end of class today.

Friday 1-6
Aim: How can you trace contours of your
portrait using a red colored pencil?
Do Now: Determine which artist inspired the
comic book style in our pop art portraits.

HW Due today