Andy Warhol Pop Artfor 6th Grade Art

Prepared by Mrs. Caywood

During this lesson you will

Learn about Pop Art as a style and art movement

Learn about Andy Warhol Use computer technology

to alter a digital photo to create

your own Pop Art photo

POP ART !!!!!!!

Pop comes from the word POPULAR

It began as a style of art in England in the mid 1950s and came to the U.S later the same decade.

Pop art includes images of popular consumer goods, advertising, comic books, and famous individuals.

POP ARTISTS

Some of the big names in the Pop Art style are:

Roy Lichtenstein Claus Oldenburg

Andy Warhol- the most famous of all the American Pop artists.

The man on the left is Warhol. Do you know who the others are?

LINKS

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/popart.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art http://www.artchive.com/artchive/pop_art.html http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/

warhol_andy.html Explore the Andy Warhol Museum online:

http://www.warhol.org/default.asp

Pop Art Project

For this portion of the project you will use Photoshop Elements software to alter one of the digital photographs found in the Caywood shared folder located in the “U” drive.

You will use one of the photos to create an Andy Warhol inspired self-portrait.

Directions- read & follow them carefully

Open Photoshop Elements using the icon

in the launcher Use the pull down menu under file, scroll down

to “open”, go the Caywood shared folder in the “U” drive, open 6I or 6N folder and open your photo.

Crop the photo so your face is the primary subject. You can do this by using the select tool. The crop command is in the pull down menu under “image”.

Pop Art photo cont.

CREDITS Imageshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1204166747/html/1.stm

http://www.lovecolors.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/andy-warhol-01.jpg