T4 Year 8 Art

What is Pop art?

• Pop Art is usually very bright, simple and colourful.

  Pop Art sometimes uses comic styles like flat

  colours, benday dots, outlines and text in speech

  bubbles.

• Works were composed to create the illusion of movement, although all Pop Art pieces were flat and two-dimensional.

• Pop art is painting of landscapes with natural colours so they look real and appear to pop out of the canvas.

• Pop art is artworks that only focus on food that pops.

Which is an example of ben-day dots?

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Onomatopoeia is

Who created the artwork Campbell's Soup Cans

• Andy Warhol

• Banksy

• Roy Lichtenstein

• Leonardo de 'Vinci

Who created the artwork the Explosion, 1965-6

• Andy Warhol

• Banksy

• Roy Lichtenstein

• Leonardo de 'Vinci

What art elements can you see in the artwork Roy Lichtenstein 1923–1997

Explosion 1965–6

• Bold lines and colours, layers and shapes

• Tone, bold Line, shapes and layers

• Bold lines and colours, layers and perspective

• Tone, perspective, texture and bold colours

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Roy Lichtenstein is a Pop Art artist who has used a Pop Art techniques in his artwork the Explosion (1965-6). The Explosion has four to five layers in multiple shapes that resemble clouds from an explosions. These shapes have been layered on top of each other with the smaller layers on top so that they are visible with the larger layers behind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From his choice in colours, lines and benday dots we can see that the artwork Explosion by Roy Lichtenstein has used multiple Pop Art techniques.

• The key Pop Art techniques that Lichtenstein used were bold colours such as red, yellow and blue, bold lines that outlined the shapes and benday dots on two separate layers.

• Roy Lichtenstein used was borrowed images of explosions from popular war comics for use in his paintings.

• The Explosion has four to five layers in multiple shapes that resemble clouds from an explosions.

• Lichtenstein was also interested in the way dynamic events like explosions were depicted in the stylised format of comic book illustration.

What is Op art?

• Pop Art is usually very bright, simple and colourful.

  Pop Art sometimes uses comic styles like flat

  colours, benday dots, outlines and text in speech

  bubbles.

• Op painters and sculptors used geometric designs in order to create feelings of movement or vibration, sometimes in

  vibrant colours and other times in simply black and white.

• Op art is painting of landscapes with opal using pastel colours.

• Op art is artworks that only focus on ordinary shapes.

Which is an example of Op Art

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Contrast is

• achieved when opposite elements are arranged together such as light and dark colours.

• achieved when similar elements are arranged together such as light blue and light purple.

• the lightness or darkness of a colour

• when multiple colours come together like a rainbow.