Fondren April 2012 Portraiture in Pop Art Style

Objective: To create a portrait using four different styles: Realistic, Abstract, Fantasy, and Comic Strip. And to review or introduce: Andy Warhol-Pop Artist, Pablo Picasso and Roy Lichtenstien- Abstract, Norman Rockwell and Paul Gauguin-Realistic.

Who can guess what Pop Art means?

Dictionary.com:

noun

an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures.

Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol

Have fun changing the colors of this piece of art..click here. Andy Warhol found that he could silk screen ink onto photos of people. He made repeated faces of Monroe, Elvis, and Jackie Onassis.

Old Fashioned Vegetable by Andy Worhol

Using everyday items like canned soup or coca cola cans, Andy made repetative mass media images.

 Femme Au Chapeau by Roy Lichtenstein

Definition of Expressionism: A manner of painting, drawing, sculpting, etc., in which forms derived from nature are distorted or exaggerated and colors are intensified for emotive or expressive purposes.

Stepping Out by Roy Lichtenstein

The Ring by Roy Lichtenstein

Pierrot by Pablo Picasso

Portrait of a Woman by Pablo Picasso

The Dugout by Norman Rockwell

Woman with Mango