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Creative Thinking & Making
Collecting
Collaborating
Silkscreen Printing
Historical & Cultural Contexts
Critical Thinking
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Total time:            2-3 class periods

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Learning Objectives and Cognitive Skills:

• Students identify, describe, and discuss key aspects of Andy Warhol's life and art.
• Students identify and discuss the design elements, color and shape.
• Students apply their knowledge of shape and color theory to create a work of art.
• Students apply stencil and photographic silkscreen processes to create a work of art.

PA State Standards:

Arts & Humanities:

9.1 Production, Performance and Exhibition


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Lesson 1: Andy Warhol’s Space Fruit and Flower Series
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Andy Warhol Space Fruit: Still Lifes (Peaches), 1979
screen print on Lenox Museum Board
30 x 40 in. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Founding Collection, Contribution Dia Center for the Arts
©AWF


Materials:

Pen
Paper
Digital projector

Vocabulary:

Color vocabulary—see Color Terminology Handout
Shape
Organic
Geometric
Positive and Negative Space

Procedure:

1. Introduce the project, examples, and unit objectives. Image Gallery. Review color theory with students, asking what they know about color and shape. For example, students can write color terminology and definitions on the board, and then discuss the difference between objective and subjective color. Distribute the Color Terminology Handout for your students to use as a continuing reference tool.

2. Present virtual printing project. Choose the flower example and walk through the project with your students. The difference between the virtual print process and what the students will be creating is that the underpainted layer of the flower is painted in the virtual print process, while in this unit students will stencil print the first layers of their print, then print the photographic layer last.

3. Present and discuss: Andy Warhol: Biography and/or Pop Art PowerPoint.

4. Present and discuss: Andy Warhol: Color and Shape PowerPoint.

5. Self-assess after each day of presentations: on a small piece of paper, students should answer the following questions:

What did you learn today that was new and interesting?
What did you hope to learn but did not?


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