8th grade - Art that Goes POP! (1-31-11)

WARM UP:

Describe to me the image above. What elements of art are being used that we have learned about so far?

(Remember to write in full paragraph form)

Vocab:

(8th grade your book is the TEAL book - Look these words up in the GLOSSARY)

1. Art media
2. Art Work
3. Balance
4. Caricature 

READING:

P. 244

GLE:

Students this week you are working on a comic book inspired piece of art work in the style of Roy Lichtenstein using the grid method in marker. 

Artist of the Week:

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop Art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".

Today's Mission:

Students today you will be given your comic book panel that you will sketch out first to be turned into a large piece of pop art in the style of Mr. Lichtenstein. You will be shown how to make a grid on both your paper and the image you are given.