Examples of “Themes” in Art

Claude Monet

Haystacks

Pablo Picasso

Masks

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Monroe, skulls & shoes

Roy Lichtenstein

Comic strips

Paul Cezanne

Still life with fruit

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Mont Sainte-Victoire

Mary Cassatt

Women & children

Lucian Freud

Portraits

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jazz

Your Turn!• Choose a theme• You will be creating a total of 3 paintings• Same steps as landscape and flower/animal:

– Find an image (from magazines) or object to draw/paint from

– Make a sketch on 9x12inch paper

– Get approval from teacher & then teacher will give you watercolor paper

– Trace the 9x12inch box (from your sketch paper) onto the watercolor paper

– The first painting should take approximately 1 week.