Pupil and parent learning sheet Week beginning: 18 th May 2020 This week's work for Year 8 Art is an introduction to artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. By the end of this week, you should be able to: 1. Learn about these artists and form an opinion about them. 2. Compare their similarities and differences. 3. Create drawings in the style of these artists. Your work this week will include the following activities: (You do not need to print any resources!) • Creating a mindmap/spider diagram on each artist • Answering 3 questions on each artist. • Creating a drawing inspired by each artist. I’d love to see all of your work take a photo and email [email protected]put the subject as Miss Potts Art For extra help with Art learning, you may also want to look at the following: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-andy-warhol https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-roy-lichtenstein
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Pupil and parent learning sheet
Week beginning: 18th May 2020
This week's work for Year 8 Art is an introduction to artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.By the end of this week, you should be able to: 1. Learn about these artists and form an opinion about them.2. Compare their similarities and differences.3. Create drawings in the style of these artists.
Your work this week will include the following activities: (You do not need to print any resources!)
• Creating a mindmap/spider diagram on each artist• Answering 3 questions on each artist.• Creating a drawing inspired by each artist.
I’d love to see all of your work take a photo and email [email protected] put the subject as Miss Potts Art
For extra help with Art learning, you may also want to look at the following:
If you don’t have any of the equipment – get creative!
Make two different mindmap/spider diagrams for the following artists. Do this on two separate pieces of paper.Write on any information you already know about them.
Don’t worry if you do not know anything about them yet. You soon will!
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein.
In this session I would like you to research the artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
I would like you to find out facts about:
• Their life• The characteristics of their artwork• What influenced their artwork• How they produced their artwork (what media they used)
I would also like you to add your opinion of the artwork on to the mindmap.
If possible click on the links. They will take you to the Tate Modern kids page. This is where you can find out about the artist and take part in different quizzes and activities (if you wish to do them).
WHO IS HE?Andy Warhol was part of the pop art movement. He was born Andrew Warhol in 1928 in Pennsylvania. His parents were from a part of Europe that is now part of Slovakia. They moved to New York in the 1920s. His first job was illustrating adverts in fashion magazines. Now is he known as one of the most influential artists who ever lived! Warhol was gay and expressed his identity through his life and art. During his lifetime being gay was illegal in the United States.
WHAT IS HE FAMOUS FOR?He is famous for exploring popular culture in his work. Popular culture is anything from Coca Cola to pop stars to the clothes people like to wear.He made a print of Campbell’s Soup – a popular brand of soup in the United States. He said he ate Campbell’s tomato soup every day for lunch for 20 years!
WHAT WAS HIS STYLE?He had a very particular personal style. He had a shock of white hair and was usually seen wearing a lot of black, leather jackets and glasses or sunglasses.He dressed up and experimented a lot with his personal style. He made a lot of self-portraits.
WHAT TYPE OF ART DID HE MAKE?Warhol liked to use bright colours and silk screening techniques. He liked using screen printing to mass-produce artworks based on photographs of celebrities, like his image of Marilyn Monroe. She was a movie star who was very famous in the 1950s.
He didn't just do prints though, he made films, digital artwork, installations, paintings and sculptures.
WHAT IS SILK SCREEN PRINTING?Warhol liked making prints because it meant he could create multiples of the same image. Screen-printing is a printing process that can create lots of artworks that look the same.
Sometimes Warhol would switch colours around and present a group of prints with contrasting colours together.
WHERE DID HE MAKE ART?Warhol hung out with a group of actors, models and artists in New York city in the 1960s. Warhol's studio in New York City was called The Factory. This was a reference to the mass-produced nature of his artworks. He saw art as a product, the same as the clothes you wear and the food you eat.
WHAT INSPIRED HIM?He loved Los Angeles, beauty and plastic, things that were modern and changed quickly. If he was alive now, what do you think would inspire him?
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923. He became famous for his bright and bold paintings of comic strip cartoons as well as his paintings of everyday objects. He was one of a group of artists making art in the 1960s who were called pop artists because they made art about 'popular' things such as TV, celebrities, fast food, pop music and cartoons.
Although best known as a painter, he made different types of art including sculpture, murals, prints and ceramics.
Lichtenstein chose colours carefully, to imitate the four colours of printers’ inks. He also used Ben Day dots, a system invented to increase the range of colours available to newspaper printing. Look closely at his work – you can see how the colours are clear from a distance, but look like tiny dots and dashes close-up.
Lichtenstein is famous for his use of cartoon strips from American comic books, which were very popular the 1950s. He admired the skill of the comic book artist, who could create complex stories of love and war in cartoon form.He was sometimes accused of copying comics exactly, but he said that he made changes to the pictures – right down to the tiniest placement of individual dots. He was also criticized for using very basic painting techniques.
Self review
1. How are these artist similar? And what are their differences?
2. What puzzles you about Andy Warhol’s and Roy Lichtenstein's work and why?
3. What would you like to know more about Andy Warhol’s and Roy Lichtenstein's work and why?
Well done on your work so far! You have now completed session 1 of this week’s art work
• Now may be a good time to take a break from this week’s art work and try something different!
• If you do take a break, remember to keep your work safe for finishing a different time this week!
Task: Produce two observational drawings in the style of each artist. (A drawing of an object in front of you. Not from your imagination.)
The subject matter of your drawing can be:• Any household objects• A plant or flower• A person• A pet/animal• A view of a room or landscape outside
Bronze - To be able to use a range of thickness in your lines to define the subject matter.
Sliver – To be able use colour effectively and use the space on your page well.
Gold – To be able to accurately display the form of your subject matter and a range of drawing techniques.
Self review
1. How have you used the influences of the artists within your work?
2. What do you belief is your the main strengthen within your artworks?
3. If Miss Potts was looking at your work, what suggestion do you think she would make to help you improve your work?
Well done you have completed the work for art this week!
• Send pictures of your wonderful work to [email protected] with the subject title ‘Art Year 8 Home Learning’ and it will be sent to me, Miss Potts. I would love to see how you have got on.
