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Creative Thinking & Making
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Collaborating
Silkscreen Printing
Historical & Cultural Contexts
Critical Thinking
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Suggested Time Frame:

PowerPoint 15 mins
Discussion 5-10 mins
Assignment 15-20 mins
Group Presentations 45 mins
Total time 1 to 1 1/2 classes

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Learning Objectives and Cognitive Skills:

▪ Students discuss and understand the interdisciplinary nature of Andy Warhol’s collaborations with writers, engineers, musicians, and artists.

▪ Students analyze Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat’s collaborative process.

▪ Students read and discuss the context of Warhol’s collaborations with Pat Hackett, Billy Kluver, The Velvet Underground, and Jean Michel Basquiat.

▪ Students draw conclusions about what makes a successful artistic collaboration.

 

PA State Standards:

Arts and Humanities:

9.2. Historical and Cultural Contexts

9.2.L. Identify, explain, and analyze common themes, forms, and techniques from works in the arts.

Science and Technology

3.8. Science Technology and Human Endeavors

3.8.10. A. Analyze how human ingenuity and technological resources satisfy specific human needs and improve the quality of life.

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Step 3. Andy Warhol’s Artistic Practice of Collaboration
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  Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat, Ten Punching Bags (Last Supper), 1985-1986
Acrylic and oil stick on punching bags 42 x 14 x 14 in. (106.7 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm.) Photo by Richard Stoner, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh © AWF



Materials:

Collaboration PowerPoint
Screen or white wall
Laptop/computer
Digital projector
Handout
Pencils
Chalkboard or large piece of paper
Marker

Procedure:

I. Collaboration Presentation:

Present and Discuss PowerPoint: Part II

II. Class Discussion:

Discuss Andy Warhol’s practice of collaboration:

  •  Why was it important for Warhol to collaborate with a variety of people?
  •  Why was his studio both his “work space” and “play space”?
  •  How did social interaction help Warhol’s artwork?

III. Warhol & Jean Michel Basquiat:

  Exhibition poster ("Tony Shafrazi and Bruno Bischofberger Present - Warhol / Basquiat: Paintings,"), 1985 © AWF
  • Photocopy and distribute the following Keith Haring quote about the working relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat:

“For an artist, the most important and most delicate relationship he can have with another artist is one in which he is constantly challenged and intimidated. This is probably the only productive product of jealousy. The greatest pleasure is to be provoked to the point of inspiration … Jean Michel and Andy had achieved a healthy balance. Each one inspired the other to out do the next. The collaborations were seemingly effortless…”  Keith Haring (1988) on the successful collaborative working relationship between Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat

  • Discuss the class’s collaborative practices:
  • Do you agree that being “challenged and intimidated” during collaboration is important?  Why or Why not?
  • Did each student inspire the other to “out do the next”?
  • Why do you think Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat worked this way?

IV.  Activity

Break students into small groups and have them choose one of the following collaborations to read about. They should answer the comprehension questions at the end of each collaboration description.

Collaboration Handout 3.2.

- Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett: Literary Collaboration
- Andy Warhol & Billy Kluver: Art and Science Collaboration
- Andy Warhol & The Velvet Underground: Music, Film, Performance Collaboration

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