Description:
After studying prints by Andy Warhol and Shephard Fairey, and discussing the Pop Art movement, students will re-interpret a photograph of a notable person by breaking the face down into flat planes and using color to express a personal point of view. Student sketches will be transferred to an EZ-cut printing block. After viewing demonstrations of the reduction print process, students will create a four-layer reduction print of their subject. The unit ends with a critique in which students reflect on their own work and the work of their classmates.
Grade 8 Benchmark:
Through close observation and sustained investigation, students develop individual and global perspectives on art; utilize the principles of art, solve design problems, and explore perspective, scale, and point of view.
Vocabulary:
silkscreen, Pop Art, plane, reduction printing, mirror-image, printing block, brayer, cutter, texture, carve, registration, alignment, limited edition