Pop Art Painting

Intro to Art

Assignment # 8

Pop Art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged

in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late

1950s in the United States.

challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's

use of the mass-produced visual commodities

of popular culture is contiguous with the

perspective of fine art.

Pop removes the material from its context

and isolates the object, or combines it with

other objects, for contemplation.

Andy Warhol

wanted to remove the difference between fine arts and the commercial arts used for magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums or advertising campaigns.

Warhol once expressed his philosophy in one poignant sentence: "When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums".

Use bright and contrasting colors.

Roy Lichtenstein

his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style.

Used Primary colors, black white and sometimes gray.

Assignment

You will chose a Roy Lichtenstein or Andy

Warhol artwork to grid up and reproduce with

your own color scheme choice.

You’ll be able to choose which size painting

you want to create= 8”x10” or 10”x12”

You’ll have to grid your work to fit the paper

What I’ll be looking for:

Painting skills

Gridding up the picture correctly

Craftsmanship

If the artwork was done in a color

scheme

If you painted in Lichtenstein’s style or

Warhol’s style

Step 1

Find a picture you like.

Grid the picture and board you are using.

Draw a contour drawing of the picture onto the gridded board.

Step 2

Finish the Lichtenstein/ Warhol painting

worksheet

Deicide what colors you will use/make for

your piece.

Step 3

Use the painting techniques that you

learned from the worksheet and apply

them to your piece.