Welcome to Ms Borgersen's digital art class

Pop Art Portraits

Pop Art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain.  The art was inspiration from popular and commercial culture such as advertising, Hollywood movies and pop music. The Art was characterized by the imagery of consumerism and popular culture (think the Cambell Soup Can) Key pop artists include Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and David Hockney

Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was the most successful and highly paid commercial illustrator in New York even before he began to make art destined for galleries. Nevertheless, his screenprinted pop culture images of Marilyn Monroe, soup cans, and sensational newspaper stories. His Famous and lifestyle made him easily one of the most influensial and famous artist of the Pop Art movement.  

Screenprinting
 Warhol began to experiment with screenprinting in the 1960’s, the practice was not a widely used medium. Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a surface through a stencil.  Screenprinting can make alot of prints fast and for low cost, all you need is one good stencil to make repreductions.  This is why screenprinting was attractive to pop artist like wharhol because it mimic the notion of Pop Culture, to produce alot and bombard the auidiance (think about comericals and adversiments, if youve heard it once youve heard it  a million times)  This is why andy make artwork that feature a repitition of the subject.  Repetition refers to one object or shape repeated; pattern is a combination of elements or shapes repeated.  

Creating Andy Warhol Screenprintings

Assignment

Using Photoshop students will create a pop art andy wharbol inspired artwork.  Students will choose a pop culture subject matter then use photoshop of to selecting shapes/ areas  and apply complimentary or analogous colors of shape, like andy did in his silk screens Students will repeat the process to compete a repitiion of images in different color combinations. 

4.) Objectives
  • create a pop art portrait by creating a high contrast portriat that is colorized
  • create a repiatition of at least 6 portriats that change the colors for each like a andy wharhol silkscreen printing
  • each portriat follows either a analegous or complementary color schem. 
  • create  at least 5 shapes of color on the portriats

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