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POP ART

 A mid 20th century art movement practiced in US and Britain that used popular, mass media symbols and images as well as every day consumer objects (such as Campbell's Soup can, Coke bottle), as subject matter, treating these in both serious and satirical manner. Aspects of this movement continued to influence later art up through the present day.

These objects have autobiographical significance for this artist. His father and grandfather owned a hardware store and he grew up playing with tools. Note the angle of view. Now compare it to that of the other pictures.

ASSIGNMENT 1. Look through view finder at a **random ** arrangement of objects on your table. Experiment with various **angles of view** and zoom in and out.

2. Create 8 **closely cropped compositions ** on folded 12” x 18” drawing paper – thumbnail format – making sure that objects extend off the page on at least 3 sides and that there is a center of interest. 3. Choose your strongest composition. Composition will count heavily toward your grade for this project.  4. Mark off the centers on the thumbnail. Transfer composition to good paper: mark the centers of the good paper and lightly redraw each object in same relation to center lines as in thumbnail. Use chalk for drawing on black or colored paper. (You may want to do this on newsprint first to get the feeling of the scale)

5. Set up the objects and light each sitting and develop the drawing from observation.

 6. Fully shade each object as well as the background, using layering technique - oil pastels.

7. Details such as labels and graphics on objects are optional.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Develop the finished drawing in your own style (but do not smudge): scribbling,cross hatching, hatching, fine gradation. Try to create a **monumental** image (larger than life) of small insignificant things.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. Make it dramatic and exciting to look at due to the composition and strong contrast and shading technique, and color palette.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tips: Refer to handout “How to Create Depth” and use these devices to create the illusion of 3-D space. Overlap objects. Make objects in foreground (lower on page) and larger than objects farther away.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VOCABULARY <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Angle of view Closely cropped composition <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Monumental <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Optical Mixing <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DURATION: 3 WEEKS WEEK 1 DAY 1: THUMBNAIL SKETCHES DAY 2: STUDY OF SINGLE CRUSHED CAN - MONOCHROMATIC, GESTURAL STYLE CHARCOAL, GRAPHITE STICK, INK, SHARPIE DAY 3: STUDY OF CAN IN OIL PASTEL. PRACTICE LAYERING TECHNIQUE - OPTICAL MIXING OF COLOR WEEK 2 DAY 4: CHALK DRAWING ON BLACK OR COLORED PAPER- 18" X 24" DAY 5: WORK OUT COLOR SCHEME. BEGIN APPLYING COLOR WORKING FROM DARK TO LIGHT, LIGHT HATCHING LIMIT COLOR TO 3 MAIN COLORS WITH OTHERS AS ACCENTS. DAY 6: CONTINUE AS ABOVE WEEK 3 DAYS 7-8: DEVELOP RICHLY TEXTURED SURFACE. ADD LIGHTER VALUES DAY 9: CRITIQUE. COMPLETE PICTURE