Mrs. Gray's Art Room: Artist Andy Warhol

This week we learned about artist Andy Warhol who was in the center of the Pop Art craze during the 50's & 60's.

His work was controversial, since up until this point, art was created with the purpose of capturing people & events of historical or religious significance and this fine art was made to display on a museum wall. Andy Warhol began finding work in everyday things such as Campbells soup can or shoe advertisements and of famous people in pop culture such as Marilyn Monroe & Elvis Presley.

In my art classes we watched a short video on Pop Art and Andy Warhol's influence in this visual art movement, we did a word search puzzle about Andy Warhol and students were given coloring sheets of 4 repetitive images and encouraged to color them Andy Warhol style...in bright opposing colors. They could choose from a paint can, strawberries, hamburgers, flowers, apples, soda cans, converse sneakers or ice cream cones.

Pardon the poor lighting...
I think it's time for some
new lighting in my hall!

Some of the students'
coloring sheets, done
"Andy Warhol" style

I also gave the Elementary School students the option of having their photograph taken and "Andy Warholized" with the PopArt FX app, that takes a photo and puts an Andy Warhol like colorized filter on them. I printed out copies for all of the students that they could hang up in their room.