Monday | snapshot

For our first art lesson for Inspiring Artists, we discussed  primary colors, secondary colors and complimentary colors. Primary colors: Red, Blue, Yellow.  Their job is to mix together and make the other colors of the rainbow. Secondary colors: Green, Purple, Orange. They are made by mixing 2 primary colors together.  (Red + Blue = Purple, Red + Yellow = Orange, Blue + Yellow = Green) Complimentary colors: Red & Green, Blue & Orange, Yellow & Purple (they are across from each other on the color wheel) Our next topic of discussion was Pop Art. Pop Art is art made from commercial items and cultural icons such as product labels, advertisements, and movie stars. Pop Art is meant to be fun. 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. 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. Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 16, 1935. He is an American pop artist. In the early 1960s Dine produced pop art with items from everyday life. On May 16, 2008, Jim Dine formally presented a nine meter high bronze statue depicting a walking Pinocchio, named Walking to Borås to the city of Borås, Sweden. a picture a Jim Dine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dine#/media/File:JimDineWestmount.jpg click here for a picture of Walking to Borås  http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_to_Bor%C3%A5s#/media/File:Pinnochio_boras.jpg Three Flags (Jasper Johns)  Jasper Johns is another pop artist. He painted a number of pictures of the American Flag. In this picture he paints three flags on top of each other. Each flag appears closer to the viewer, but gets smaller as well. You can see a picture of this painting here. For our project, Miss Ashanti traced a large heart with a pencil on a piece of paper.  Then the students used watercolor paint in primary colors (Red, Blue, Yellow) to fill it in how they chose.  The one rule is to make sure that “each color gets a turn touching the edge/outline of the heart.”  And then secondary colors (Green, Purple, Orange), to paint around the outside of the heart. I also showed them how adding clean water with a brush at the end will make the colors run together. They turned out beautiful! this is a picture of Jim Dine's Imogene, our inspiration