Grade 7 Learning Packet Thank you for your dedication as a student for Salem-Keizer School District! 7° Grado Paquete de aprendizaje ¡Gracias por tu dedicación como un estudiante de las Escuelas Públicas de Salem-Keizer! Art Grades 6-8 | Week of May 11, 2020 Name:_________________________ ID: ________________ Circle Your Grade: 6 7 8 ​ ​ ​ Circle Your School: Circle Your School: Circle Your School: Claggett Creek Houck Leslie Stephens Waldo Whiteaker Crossler Judson Parrish Straub Walker DIRECTIONS: Read the article about Pop Art and answer the comprehension questions at the end. Pop Art History and Artists General Overview Pop Art is art made from commercial items and cultural icons such as product labels, advertisements, and movie stars. In a way, Pop Art was a reaction to the seriousness of Abstract Expressionist Art. Pop Art is meant to be fun. When was the Pop Art movement? Pop Art began in the 1950s, but became very popular in the 1960s. It started in the United Kingdom, but became a true art movement in New York City with artists like Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. What are the characteristics of Pop Art? Pop Art uses images and icons that are popular in the modern world. This includes famous celebrities like movie stars and rock stars, commercial items like soup cans and soft drinks, comic books, and any other items that are popular in the commercial world. There are a number of ways that artists use these items to create art such as repeating the item over and over again, changing the color or texture of the item, and putting different items together to make a picture. Interesting Facts about Pop Art ● There is a similar sounding type of art called Op Art. Op Art is art that uses optical illusion to trick the eye. ● Some people say that Pop Art is poking fun at traditional art and is most closely related to the nonsense art of Dadaism. ● Pop Art artists wanted to make art for the masses. They felt that earlier art was elitist. Famous Pop Art Artists ● Keith Haring - This New York artist is famous for his cartoon like outlined pictures of people doing different things. His art was inspired by graffiti. ● Jasper Johns - Jasper is most famous for his paintings of the American flag. He has also painted a map of the United States and another famous painting of just numbers called Numbers in Color​. ● Roy Lichtenstein - Roy is known for making art from the inspiration of comic books. ● Wayne Thiebaud - Thiebaud became famous by painting items such as pies, cakes, lipstick, and toys. One of his most famous paintings is of three gumball machines called ​Three Machines​. ● Andy Warhol​ - Warhol is the most famous of the Pop Artists and played a major role in making the art movement popular. His painting of Campbell's Soup cans pushed Pop Art to the front of the art scene. Examples of Pop Art If you are able to access the Internet, try doing an image search of the artworks listed below so you can see them in full color! Campbell’s Soup Cans (Andy Warhol) Three Flags (Jasper Johns) Cake & Pies (Wayne Thiebaud) Best known for his paintings of cakes, This ​work of art​ was produced between Jasper Johns painted a number of ​ ​ November 1961 and March or April 1962 pictures of the American Flag. In this pies, pastries, and toys, Wayne Thiebaud hadn’t planned on becoming a visual by ​Andy Warhol​. It consists of thirty-two picture he paints three flags on top of each canvases, each consisting of a painting of other. Each flag appears closer to the artist. He apprenticed as a cartoonist at Walt Disney studios, but his friend turned a ​Campbell's Soup​ can—one of each of viewer, but gets smaller as well. the canned soup varieties the company him towards a career in fine art. ​ ​ offered at the time. Bugatti (Dorothy Grebenak) Drowning Girl (Roy Lichtenstein) To create handmade rugs, self-taught New Hoover Convertibles (Jeff Koons) This painting is made to look like a artist Grebenak explored the boundaries ​By taking a mass-produced, everyday scene from a comic book. The girl is between fine art and craft. Incorporating object associated with domestic, suburban drowning and she yells out "I don't care! I'd logos of brands ranging from Con Edison life and presenting it as art he raised its rather sink, than call Brad for help!" The to Bugatti, Grebenak melded popular and status from the ordinary to the iconic. The artist even painted the picture with the dots consumer cultures with American folk art. sculptures explore the way fantasies and that are often seen in the color areas on desires can be transferred on to everyday comic books. objects. Comprehension Questions Please answer in complete sentences. You may use another piece of paper if you need more room. 1. Pop Art was a reaction to the seriousness of what art movement? ______________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Who did Pop artists want to make art for? _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Which artist’s paintings of soup cans pushed Pop Art to the front of the art scene?__________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. If someone wanted to make Pop Art based on today’s celebrities or commercial products, who or what would they choose for a subject? Name at least three.__________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Element of Art: Color Color​ is how our eyes see the reflection of light off of objects​. In art, color is organized with a ​color wheel​. The color wheel shows the relationships between colors, such as what colors mix to make new colors and what colors go well together. Primary colors are the first colors and no other colors mix to make them. Mixing two primary colors will result in a ​secondary color​. Red + Yellow = Orange. Yellow + Blue = Green. Blue + Red = Violet. A primary color mixed with a secondary color results in a ​tertiary color​. Ex. Blue + Green = Blue-Green. Complementary colors​ are​ across from one another on the color wheel. They are opposites, but go well because they contrast and make each other pop to our eyes. Warm colors​ (red, orange, yellow) remind us of warmth and the sun. Cool colors​ (green, blue, violet) remind us of cold, water, and ice. The Pop Art artists loved to use bright, flat colors to give their art graphic appeal. A​ color scheme​ is a combination of colors. What’s your favorite color scheme? Color Activity Choice Board Choose two of the color activities below and complete them separately or on the next page. Pop Art Object Repetition with Andy Warhol Think Outside the Box Color Wheel Challenge Directions: Draw the outline of a Directions: Gather items from around your home that common object you see or use make up the colors of the color wheel. Arrange them in a everyday on a piece of thick ring in the correct color wheel order. You can use the paper or color wheel on cardboard. the previous Cut out the page for help shape and knowing which trace it four colors to find. If times on a piece of paper. Draw a you can, take a grid separating the four shapes. picture of your Inside each section, color in the main color wheel and shape and its background--but use a email it to your different color scheme and patterns in art teacher! each one! Jeff Koons-Inspired Pop Art Object Pop Art Candy Close-Up Directions: Jeff Koons is known for recreating common Challenge toys or objects from everyday life. Select a common Directions: Grab one of your object from your daily life and make it artsy! You could favorite candies. Pick a part draw it in a colorful way of the wrapper that is that makes it seem extra special. If it is big, you interesting to you and focus could draw it small or if it is on that one area. Draw a small, draw it big! You close-up of that wrapper and could also photograph it color it in, making sure to and use artistic filters to make it as similar to the present it as a work of art. original package as possible. Home Collage with Richard Hamilton Face Collage with Richard Hamilton Directions: You will need Directions: ​You will need magazine/newspapers, magazine/newspapers, scissors, and glue. scissors, and glue. Search for Search for images that images of faces and cut out stand out to you and could different parts of the face--an build a room with--art, eye from one, a nose from furniture, people, another, until you have all the interesting objects, parts to build a new anything you want in your room. Glue down the cut-out one-of-a-kind face. Glue objects to create a fantasy room image. cut-outs together to create your image. Warm Hands/Cool Hands Color Scheme Scavenger Hunt Directions: Draw some lines over your Directions: Look on TV, online, or around your home for paper in a pattern such as rings, objects or ideas that match the color schemes below. You waves, or a mixture of many patterns. can write your answers in one of the Choice Board Activity Trace your hand over the top. Color in spaces. your drawing, using only warm colors 1. Primary 2. Secondary 3. Tertiary for your hand and cool colors for the 4. Complementary 5. Warm 6. Cool 7. Favorite background, or vice versa. Use the color wheel on the previous page for Examples: help with your color schemes. 1. Superman 4. Christmas (Red/Green) Color Choice Board Activities Use this space to create your choice board artworks.