7th Grade Contemporary Pop Art Paintings

7th graders learned about the Pop Art movement during a recent art lesson. They enjoyed the bright uses of color and popular culture imagery by artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein! We also learned about complementary colors! After discussing contemporary popular culture images that we see everyday, students created their own painting inspired by the Pop Art movement.

Check out their work: 

 

Awesome job!

4th Grade Keith Haring Movement Figures

In 4th grade we have been learning about artist, Keith Haring. Haring was a very popular artist who created fun and colorful cartoon-like figures. His figures did not have features, but were filled with bold color and outline. His figures often looked as if they were dancing!

Students learned about Haring's life, inspirations, and legacy in the art world. In this lesson, they also learned about complementary colors! These are colors located across from each other on the color wheel. (red & green, yellow & purple, blue & orange!) Complementary colors, when put next to one another, are appear very bright!

In this project, students created their own Keith Haring figures depicting movement four times. For each figure, the student had to use a pair of complementary colors. The fourth box was a free choice and the student could use any set of colors to paint in their figure!

This project was so fun and made us want to dance!