Andy Warhol, Intermediate Color Theory, and an Introduction to Design

Goals:
Learn about Andy Warhol
Learn basics of intermediate color theory and design composition

Enduring understandings:
Andy Warhol:
• Was both a commercial and fine artist—he loved to blur distinctions
• Was one of the founders of Pop Art
• Was able to fine new uses for discarded or overlooked images

Using particular color combinations can be appealing to the viewer, as well as have particular effects on one’s optic nerve.

Some colors are considered cool or cold, and others are described as warm or hot.

Activities:
Watch, discuss, critique, and analyze specific images and information in selected segments of the video on Andy Warhol put together by me

Read and discuss articles about Andy Warhol in School Arts Magazine

Analyze and discuss specific images made by Warhol, especially art based on labels and portraits

Photograph one another using portrait-style framing techniques—need 1 – 4 images with which one is willing to work—we will transfer these photos to a quadrant format and use 4 different color formulas (chosen from a set of 12) to create a final self-portrait

Photograph one’s self using the Photo Booth software—need 8 images with which one is willing to work – we will use these to create a More Fun With Faces collage

Follow-up activities:
• Photograph an object from the still-life shelves and make a quadrant picture using it
• Invent one’s own logo (refer to last year’s project examples on display board and blogsite) and make a quadrant picture using that
• Make a list of what you would add to the video I made for the class, compile the necessary resources, and make one’s own addendum using any of the following formats: video and/or still photography, documentary/book/magazine/pamphlet, poster, or design a product presentation, such as a cereal or soap box, to convey the information one wants to share




Vocabulary:
Commercial art—used in the buying and selling of goods or services, usually as a promotional device
Pop Art—art that appropriates popular images or objects and recycles them as objects of fine art; an art movement in 1960s and 1970s that appropriated materials from popular culture and the mass media
Silkscreen—fine mesh screen, often made of silk, contained within a frame, to which an image is applied through masking techniques, and then ink or paint is pulled through with a squeegee in order to transfer an image to another surface
Appropriation—taking or using something for one’s own ends; e.g., Andy Warhol appropriated labels commonly found on products sold in grocery stores and used these in his fine art silkscreen-paintings
Complementary colors—sit opposite one another on the color wheel
Analogous colors—sit side-by-side on the color wheel
Hue – a type or kind of color in a particular range; esp., within a particular color family
Tint – a paler hue of a color or a color mixed with white to give low saturation of color and high lightness
Shade – a color made more bright or dark by the lessening of additives, especially white, or by adding grays, blacks, or other darker pigments; also: to make a color darker