Warm and Cool Hearts with Jim Dine

PREPARATION: precut Heart stencils from card stock and tape them to the table. Students will slip their paper underneath. 

DISCUSSION: Warm and Cool Colors

What are warm colors?

How do they make us feel?

Where/When do we see them?

What are cool colors?

How can they make us feel?

Where/when do we see them?

ARTIST

Jim Dine born June 16, 1935

American pop artist. 

He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. 

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 

He attended the University of Cincinnati and received a BFA from Ohio University 

 He first earned respect in the art world with his Happenings. 

Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, the "Happenings" were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world. 

In 1962 Dine's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important New Painting of Common Objects.

This exhibition is historically considered one of the first "Pop Art" exhibitions in America

Jim Dine’s Hearts were included in this exhibit

PROJECT: create oil pastel heart with stencil  

Step 1: name on paper

Step2: place stencil on paper and tape down

Step3: Color inside the stencil with warm oil pastels

Step4: remove stencil

Step5: fill in background with cool color of water colors

Step6: place on drying rack

MATERIALS:

Heart stencils

Oil pastels

Liquid watercolors in cool colors