MMA - Andy Warhol

This summer a tutoring client and I are going through the Magnificent Modern Art course from Art History Kids together. It's been really interesting so far. Art History isn't something I ever really learned about, so it's new to me. And so, of course, I'm going to keep some notes here as we go along!

Last week it was Abstract Expressionism and the artist Helen Frankenthaler.

This week we are studying

Andy Warhol
Pop Art (1955 - 1975)

sample artwork from the art movement

Roy Lichtenstein
Cold Shoulder
1963

Keith Haring
Dance
1987

Rosalyn Drexler
The Winner
1965

sample artwork from this artist

commercial art examples

A Set of Boxes
1964

Flowers
1964

African Elephant
1983

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
1985

for more examples of his commercial artwork, see The Shoes of Andy Warhol

focus piece of art from this artist

Campbell’s Soup Cans
1962

element & principle of art and design

SHAPE

other notes (my suggestions)

Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit With Andy Warhol
by James Warhola


Uncle Andy's Cats
by James Warhola


Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter
by Susan Goldman Rubin

re. video 3, she forgot to include the step-by-step instructions for the "blotted line technique" in the workbook as she said she would BUT I did find a blog post she wrote about making Andy Warhol-inspired art with bell pepper printing!

https://www.arthistorykids.com/blog/2014/5/2/warhol-cats-flowers

aha! if you do want to experiment with the blotted line technique, try this lesson from warhol.org
https://www.warhol.org/lessons/andy-warhols-blotted-line/

Andy Warhol's Blotted Line Technique (PDF)

last but not least, when I was a little girl, with enough Cheerios boxtops you could submit a photo of yourself and they would make it into a rubber stamp and send it to you!

I threw mine out years ago because it was all ponytail and glasses, but I still have some of the images of it because I stamped it inside all my books... it would be so fun if they still offered that as a prize and you could make an Andy Warhol-inspired self portrait that way!

and more...

Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters
by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga
Robert Rauschenberg - "Combines," p.96
Edward Kienholz - "Walk Through Sculpture," p.98
Roy Lichtenstein - "Comic Dots," p.102
Andy Warhol - "Lots of Me!," p.103

available online as a FREE PDF from Bright Ring Publishing



Using Art to Create Art: Creative Activities Using Masterpieces
by Wendy Libby
Jasper Johns, pp.101-107
Andy Warhol, pp.211-214

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