Pattern POP trees with Andy Warhol

Discussion: Pattern, Stripes and stars
To have a pattern with stripes, they must repeat. 
Where do we find stripes? what animals have stripes?
Do tree’s have stripes? where are they?
Horizontal, this word means side to side or across. 

Show Warhol’s Tiiffany and Co work of the stripes tree with stars
What do you think of this piece?
Does it remind you of anything?
Where do we find stars?

look at this print of Warhol's:
http://www.bandagedear.com/featured-product/christmas-tree-ca-1950-1955-multi-by-andy-warhol

Andy Warhol
(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), 
Born Andrew Warhola 
An American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker 
leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. 
After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, 
During this time he created holiday prints for Tiffany's
Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter
He was also filmmaker, record producer, author, 
Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.
He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." 
The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.
The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. 
Died during routine gallbladder surgery in 1987

PROJECT: Create tree with wrapping paper
Step1: using your Wrapping paper scrapes, add largest part of tree first 
Step 2: Using another wrapping paper scrap, slightly smaller, add it above the first
Step3: Using another wrapping paper scrap, slightly smaller, add it above the last
step 4; Using another wrapping paper scrap, slightly smaller, add it above the last
Step5: Repeat with the smallest on top
Step6: add a star to The top

MATERIALS: 
Wrapping paper in all patterns
Glue stick
stars

Collaboration: Mixed Movement Dot Circles with Sonya Delaunay, Elizabeth Murray and Seurat

THREE WEEK COLLABORATION PROJECT

Final Project at the end of third class 

WEEK 1

Discussion: 
Primary Color
Secondary color
Mixing colors to make new colors
Show a piece of Delaunay's artwork
Discuss color and shape

Artist:

Sonia Delaunay
(November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) 
Jewish-French artist 
Married to  Robert Delaunay 
Co-founded the Orphism art movement: noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. 
Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. 
She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.
Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric abstraction, the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing.

Project: Create mixed color circles for colloboraration canvas
Step1: Studenst mix two colors together in a small cup
Step2: studenst paint large circle on canvas

Materials: 
Tempura paint: primary secondary black and white
Paint brushes
30x40 canvas


WEEK 2

Discussion: Movement
Talk about movement and music in art work
Show Elizabeth Murray's work and ask if they see music
iPAD: Use the MOMA art app to add music to Murray's work and let studenst here the noises
No iPad: Study Keith Haring and talk about black movement lines

Artist: Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007):
Inspired by Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock’s work, as well as Pablo Picasso’s Cubist works 
American painter Elizabeth Murray’s oeuvre span styles from a Minimalist use form and color to bold, cartoonish Surrealism. 
Her works push the boundaries of a two-dimensional medium; the irregular triangles in the “Giant Maiden” series (1972) strain against the edges of canvases painted in high relief, while the explosive colors on an intricate collage-like canvas in Do the Dance (2005) lend the painting a kinetic, almost optical quality.

Project: using medium brushes have students add lines to circles
Step1: grab a brush with black paint and add one curved line 
step2: add a few straight lines

Materials: 
Black paint
Brushes
Circles canvas; see above. 

WEEK 3

Discussion: Dots
Mixing colors with your eye balls
Look at the Seurat work: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884
Ask students what they see (make sure they see the monkey) 
Have a close up of one spot on the final work that shows the dots. 
How does  the view mix the dots? Is this science? 

Artist: Georges Seurat 

(1859-1891)

French Painter

Invented pointillism

Took informal art lessons as a teen

Attended art school in Paris

He studied the relationship between lines and images and the effect light had on color

He wanted to know more about the emotional effect of color

He influenced science with his studies of colors

Project: add dots to the movement circles

Step1: using q-tips add put color dots to the final work

Materials

Tempura Paint

Q-tips