April Lesson Plan for Kindergarten

Andy Warhol April lesson Plan for Kindergarten Pop Art

Please use the teacher’s computer to open the lesson plan located on Patterson’s website. It is located in the Art Awareness area in the Kindergarten tab titled April. Use the teacher’s Smart board or overhead projector to display the art examples on the chalkboard and use for discussion questions. There will not be a trifold board for this lesson.

Biographical Information Andrew Warhol was a Great American Artist who was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1928. Andy went to college to study graphic art and then eventually moved to New York City where he started to create Pop Art. Pop Art is a form of art where the artist paints things from their everyday life. Sometimes pop artists create art that is an exact copy of something. While other times they may change the colors or repeat the image many times to increase interest. Andy Warhol loved to paint, print and recreate images that were seen and loved in his everyday life. He was nicknamed the “Prince of Pop” and is credited with creating the Pop Art style. Much of Andy’s art was of pictures of famous people like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe that he copied from magazines and newspapers. He also painted pictures of money, cats, shoes, Coke bottles, and soup cans (he loved to eat Campbell’s Tomato soup as a child). If you were a Pop artist what would you paint? Much of Andy’s art used complimentary colors and repetition. Complimentary colors are colors that are opposite of each other on the color wheel. Such opposites are orange and blue, red and green, and yellow and purple. When complimentary colors are used it helps to create contrast and makes the image stand out from its surroundings. Repetition is when something is repeated over and over again. Repetition is commonly used in music, poetry and art. Do you think that by repeating something over and over again it becomes more important? Andy loved the pop art style because he felt that it was a style of art that included all people and that everyone could relate to. In his eyes, it didn’t matter if you were the richest person in the world or the poorest. Either way, both people could enjoy the same can of Coke or bowl of soup. Money couldn’t buy a better can of Coke. Andy died at the age of 58. He is remembered as a great artist and remains very popular today. In 2009 he even sold his painting Eight Elvises for 300 Million dollars. Do you think he ever imagined that that would happen? Vocabulary Words Pop Art - a form of art that shows objects or scenes from everyday life and uses techniques of commercial art and popular illustration. Complimentary Colors - a color directly opposite another on a color wheel and providing the greatest contrast to it. Repetition - the act or process of repeating or being repeated. Symmetry - Symmetry is when one shape becomes exactly like another if you flip, slide or turn it. Visually the same side-to-side or top to bottom.

Discussion Questions Here are a few questions to ask the students while showing examples of Andy Warhol’s works of art.

What do you notice first about Warhol’s artwork? Why do you think he uses the colors he does? Do they compliment each other well? Does anything stand out about this piece of art? Do you think that painting a soup can is art?

Tissue Paper Butterflies Materials: Project example, white paper, pencil, marker, scissors, multiple colors of tissue paper, glue or modge podge, bowls and sponge brushes.

Demonstrate the lesson by following these step by step instructions, please remember to have the students put their name on the back of their paper. Cover tables with newspaper before getting started.

1. Give each student a piece of paper, pencil, strips of colored tissue paper, scissors, and sponge brush. Place bowls of glue on tables for sharing. 2. Demonstrate how to draw a butterfly. Make an oblong shape for the body. To make the right wing, draw a large B, to make the left wing draw a backwards B. Add antennae. Try to make wings the same size so that the butterfly looks symmetrical. 3. Trace butterfly with dark color marker. 4. Cut small pieces of tissue paper from provided strips and begin gluing to butterfly. Tissue paper should stay within butterfly outline. Students can use a complimentary color theme by using complimentary colors for opposite wings or can layer colors on top of each other to create new colors. Continue until complete.

*Instruct students to brush glue on paper and then lay tissue paper on top. Work in sections. This will be less messy and faster. Andy Warhol

Color Wheel Soup Can painting (hanging in hallway by office)

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