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This assignment is the 1st project of the Portraits and Art Movements Unit. In this unit students will explore portraiture along with Pop Art, Fauvism, and Cubism. Artists such as Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Ryan Red Corn will be highlighted. Students will photograph themselves and others to achieve a variety of portraits.
(I apologize for the inconsistent fonts in this post.)
This assignment is the 1st project of the Portraits and Art Movements Unit. In this unit students will explore portraiture along with Pop Art, Fauvism, and Cubism. Artists such as Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Ryan Red Corn will be highlighted. Students will photograph themselves and others to achieve a variety of portraits.
(I apologize for the inconsistent fonts in this post.)
from Wikipedia:
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art 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. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
March 14th Learn about Andy Warhol
Essential Questions:
Who was Andy Warhol and what was his part in the Pop Art movement?
What is silk screening? What are the steps?
What subjects did Warhol select and why?
Who was Andy Warhol and what was his part in the Pop Art movement?
What is silk screening? What are the steps?
What subjects did Warhol select and why?
1. DIN: View samples of Andy Warhol's work here: Andy Warhol.ppt
2. Read: http://history1900s.about.com/od/artists/p/warhol.htm
and the following paragraphs from Wikipedia:
Among the imagery tackled by Warhol were dollar bills, celebrities and brand name products. He also used as imagery for his paintings newspaper headlines or photographs of mushroom clouds, electric chairs, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. Warhol also used Coca Cola bottles as subject matter for paintings. He had this to say about Coca Cola:
Campbell's Soup I (1968)A pivotal event was the 1964 exhibit The American Supermarket, a show held in Paul Bianchini's Upper East Side gallery. The show was presented as a typical U.S. small supermarket environment, except that everything in it – from the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc. – was created by six prominent pop artists of the time, among them the controversial (and like-minded) Billy Apple, Mary Inman, and Robert Watts. Warhol's painting of a can of Campbell's soup cost $1,500. The exhibit was one of the first mass events that directly confronted the general public with both pop art and the perennial question of what art is (or of what is art and what is not).[citation needed]In May 2006, Warhol’s Small Torn Campbell Soup Can (Pepper Pot) (1962) sold for $11,776,000 and set the current auction world record for a painting from the Campbell Soup can series
and the following paragraphs from Wikipedia:
Among the imagery tackled by Warhol were dollar bills, celebrities and brand name products. He also used as imagery for his paintings newspaper headlines or photographs of mushroom clouds, electric chairs, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. Warhol also used Coca Cola bottles as subject matter for paintings. He had this to say about Coca Cola:
New York's Museum of Modern Art hosted a Symposium on pop art in December 1962 during which artists like Warhol were attacked for "capitulating" to consumerism. Critics were scandalized by Warhol's open embrace of market culture. This symposium set the tone for Warhol's reception. Throughout the decade it became more and more clear that there had been a profound change in the culture of the art world, and that Warhol was at the center of that shift.[citation needed]What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca-Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca-Cola, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.[16]
3. Answer Warhol Quiz on our blog. Open 2 tabs or windows in order to look at both pages.
4. Discuss Warhol. Talk about Andy Warhol’s subject matter: celebrities, commercial goods, repetition. (over exposure…).
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol if you want to more about him.
5. PHOTOGRAPH- partner up and/or use a tripod for neck up, straight on view.
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol if you want to more about him.
5. PHOTOGRAPH- partner up and/or use a tripod for neck up, straight on view.
6. On projector: go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7uEBrXqcM8 to see how silkscreen is done.
7. TOD- visual check of photos
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March 16th Photograph for a Warhol Pop Art Piece
ESSENTIAL Questions:
What is Fauvism?
What art elements and principles of design are found in Andy Warhol’s Pop Art?
How can Fotoflexor be used to create POP art like Andy Warhol’s?
1. Look up The Fauves on Google images. Examine those paintings.
Fauvism is a movement in French painting that revolutionized the concept of color in modern art. Fauves earned their name ("les fauves"-wild beasts) by shocking exhibit visitors on their first public appearance, in 1905.
At the end of the nineteenth century, neo Impressionist painters were already using pure colors, but they applied those colors to their canvases in small strokes. The fauves rejected the impressionist palette of soft, shimmering tones in favor of radical new style, full of violent color and bold distortions.
These painters never formed a movement in the strict sense of the word, but for years they would nurse a shared ambition, before each went his separate and more personal way. (from huntfor.com)
Go here:http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html to READ and examine Andy Warhol's Marilyn Prints and play around with colors.
Fauvism is a movement in French painting that revolutionized the concept of color in modern art. Fauves earned their name ("les fauves"-wild beasts) by shocking exhibit visitors on their first public appearance, in 1905.
At the end of the nineteenth century, neo Impressionist painters were already using pure colors, but they applied those colors to their canvases in small strokes. The fauves rejected the impressionist palette of soft, shimmering tones in favor of radical new style, full of violent color and bold distortions.
These painters never formed a movement in the strict sense of the word, but for years they would nurse a shared ambition, before each went his separate and more personal way. (from huntfor.com)
Go here:http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html to READ and examine Andy Warhol's Marilyn Prints and play around with colors.
2. Go to Warhol classwork in the column at the right, and answer----How does the color affect the mood?
3. Partner up or work alone. Read TIPS: http://lifehacker.com/#!159432/how-to-take-great-digital-portraits and http://howitookit.hanseldobbs.net/8-techniques-for-artistic-portrait-photographs.html
Go out and photograph each other. Find a well-lit area or use a flash and take self portraits OR photographs of each other. Make sure you have great shot with the face framed from the neck because they will be used to create a Warhol-like photo in Fotoflexer. Also, photograph for a self portrait to use for a Magazine Cover. (see assignment for next class) If you partner up, you must use each other's photo for the magazine cover.
4. Return to the classroom, upload photos, save to your drive. Delete the bad ones. Make sure you don't save photos to your computer.
5. TOD: Answer another question at Warhol classwork. Teacher visual check off.
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March 18th Create Warhol-like Pop Art and a Magazine Cover
Essential Questions:
How can Fotoflexer be used to create a Warhol-like collage?
How does an artist critique works of photography? What topics are shared?
How can an artist create a quick and easy magazine cover?
How can Fotoflexer be used to create a Warhol-like collage?
How does an artist critique works of photography? What topics are shared?
How can an artist create a quick and easy magazine cover?
1. DIN: (on blog) How can you help others in the class who are struggling? What tip do you have for success with a portrait?
2. Open photos from last class. Use Fotoflexor to touch up and crop if necessary. Save as a separate image. (always make sure you have that original photo)
3. In Fotoflexer, open that image and go the EFFECTS tab, click Right on the MOVE button, select the POP ART button. Click APPLY. Don’t stop there. Click MORE again and find the COLOR ROTATE button. Move around on the ROTATION 0-360 scale and find the option you like the best. Consider the mood you want to present. Save this with this label: lastnamePOPblock# Email me your image. If you did a self portrait, tell me who took the photo.
4. READ: Magazine publishers, editors, and circulation directors know the importance of the cover image as both a newsstand impulse buy and as a brand. 80 percent of consumer magazines’ newsstand sales are determined by what is shown on the cover, a fact that can mean the difference between a magazine’s success or failure over time. The cover image and design reinforce the brand, an important identification factor because the average reader spends only three to five seconds scanning a magazine cover before deciding whether to buy that issue. Magazine covers not only offer information about what’s inside a particular issue, they also provide significant cultural cues about social, political, economic, and medical trends. As both historical artifacts and marketing tools, magazine covers deserve closer study. (from http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/Files/mag.htm)
5. Visit: http://w4.nkcsd.k12.mo.us/~manderso/educ/highschl/hot_topics/index.htm?detectflash=false& Examine student work: Time Magazine Covers
6. Go to: http://www.fakemagazinecover.com/ Choose a well-known APPROPRIATE magazine that you plan to use for a SELF PORTRAIT. Do not start to create the cover yet.
5. (not required for legally absent students finishing up on the weekend.) Create a Contact Sheet in Photoshop: First create a folder of your best portraits for the Warhol and Mag. Cover. Open Photoshop. Go to file, automate and select Contact Sheet II. At the top of the dialog box, select that folder you created. <ale the Document W- 8.5 inches and L- 11 inches. Also, plug in 5 X 5 columns, but unclick Rotate for Best Fit. Click to create. Save to your drive and get Mrs. Thomas to check you off. (Magazine photo proportions: 8.14' X 11')
6. Go back to: http://www.fakemagazinecover.com/ Upload your photo. Add wording if you have time, but plain is fine, too. Right click and save as lastnamemagblock#. Email me a copy.
If time, you may print. Otherwise we will print next class.
6. TOD: Visual check by teacher that you have a completed Warhol image and a magazine cover and online question.
March 22, 2011: Self Evaluation and Journaling
Essential Questions:
How does an artist critique his/her work? What grade do you deserve?
How do you print ONE of your 2 images?
Who is David Hockney?
AGENDA:
Complete self assessment online (see right of this page).
Print one or both of your images. (Warhol and/or Magazine)
Begin next UNIT: Hockney and Cubism:
(For even more biographical info about him visit http://www.hockneypictures.com/illust_chronology/illust_chrono_01.php)
March 22, 2011: Self Evaluation and Journaling
Essential Questions:
How does an artist critique his/her work? What grade do you deserve?
How do you print ONE of your 2 images?
Who is David Hockney?
AGENDA:
Complete self assessment online (see right of this page).
Print one or both of your images. (Warhol and/or Magazine)
Begin next UNIT: Hockney and Cubism:
1. Let’s figure out who David Hockney is. Examine his work. Look on Google Images http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbs=isch:1&sa=X&ei=omWHTfGNItGdgQe0p5TZCA&ved=0CDMQBSgA&q=david+hockney+photography&spell=1&biw=967&bih=518
and here: http://www.hockneypictures.com/works.php click on WORKS tab.
Visit: http://www.artandculture.com/users/211-david-hockney and http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hockney.html (read about his start as an artist.)
to read about him.
Complete David Hockney Quiz (at right of this page) to check for comprehension. Write answers in your own words. (no cut and pasting)
to read about him.
Complete David Hockney Quiz (at right of this page) to check for comprehension. Write answers in your own words. (no cut and pasting)
(For even more biographical info about him visit http://www.hockneypictures.com/illust_chronology/illust_chrono_01.php)
