An examination into how artists have responded to celebrity.

Celebrity and Pop Art

What is Pop Art?

• Pop art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century.

• It began in Britain and America in the mid to late 1950s.

• Key features include the use of bold colours, found images, reference to popular culture such as comics, advertising and films.

Andy Warhol made many images of celebrities, especially Marilyn Monroe, using flat colour.

Flat colour is an area of colour with the same tonal value throughout.

Warhol’s favourite method was silk screen printing.

He often used repetition of the same image in his work.

•Use coloured paper, tissue paper, fineliner •rework a found image of a celebrity.

Lesson 1

FAILE (Collective)

Alternative Lesson

• In sketchbooks respond to the work of FAILE. • Use a range of found images from comics and • propaganda posters to create a collage.

HomeworkLevel 5 Work back into a found image of a celebrity of your choice. Repeat this task 4 times across 4 pages. In each image use different colours and different media to rework your found image. Use bold flat colour and strong tonal contrasts.  Level 6 Draw a celebrity of your choice working from the same found image. Repeat this task 4 times across 4 pages. In each image you must demonstrate a different formal element and different media:One line drawing (no shading)One tonal drawing (strong contrast)Two different colour drawings (consider colour harmony)  Level 7 to 8 Create 4 colour studies using different media in your sketchbook of a celebrity of your choice working in response to either Andy Warhol's Marilyn series or the work of Elizabeth Peyton. Working from your most successful study…Paint your chosen celebrity (on canvas or board). Use bold colour to achieve the desired effect.Photograph your final piece and put it in your sketchbook.

• Create mono prints of a celebrity. • Put into your sketchbook.

Lesson 2

Alternative Lesson

• Acetone Print Transfer.• Use found images• Transfer into your • sketchbook.

• Use ready-made stencils to print repeating patterns.

• Look at examples of pattern in the work of Shepard Fairey.

Lesson 3

Alternative Lesson

• Create abstract backgrounds using different sizes of sequin waste and spray paint; or

• Use different found objects to create backgrounds.

Shepard Fairey

Street ArtLesson 4

•Discuss Street Art and •Analyse the work of Shepard Fairey

Mise en Scene(“Setting in Scene”) Look carefully at the picture and write a paragraph explaining what is going on in the scene from an objective/impartial viewpoint.

ProcessWhat has the artist used to make the art work? Consider the materials and media. Has it been presented in a special way?

KeywordsWrite down a list of 5-10 keywords in response to this picture:

Image Analysis: Writing Frame

TITLE: Hope

DATE: 2008

ARTIST: Shepard Fairey

Title:How does the title of the work contribute to your understanding of the work?

ContentWhat do you think are the intentions of the artist? what kind of mood is created? What wider issues do you think the artist is exploring?What ideas could you take from the artist and explore in your work?

Hope (2008) consists of a stylized stencil portrait of Obama.

The design was created in one day and printed first as a poster. Fairey sold 350 of the posters on the street immediately after printing them. It was then more widely distributed

The poster was inspired by Social Realism and, while widely praised as original and unique, can be seen as part of a long tradition of contemporary artists drawing inspiration from political candidates and producing "posters that break the mold not only in terms of color and style but also in message and tone.“ Fairey himself has said, "My historical inspiration was the well-known JFK portrait where he is posed in a three-quarters view looking slightly upward and out into the distance. The image of Lincoln on the five- dollar bill has a similar feel."

Source (Wikipedia)

HomeworkLevel 5

Create a double page spread and title page on Shepard Fairey and Street art. Use found images and include your own drawings of his work. Make this double page spread visually exciting and ensure you use colour. Include 10 facts about his work.

Level 6

Write a structured analysis of one of Shepard Fairey's images. Present this across 2 pages in your sketchbook.Use the following headings: • Mis en Scene, • Key Words,• Title • Process and • ContentMake your double page visually exciting.

Level 7 to 8

Compare and contrast the work of Andy Warhol with Shepard Fairey. Research this thoroughly first, then using your own words…Provide a clear definition of both Pop art and Street art. What is Street art?How is it different from Pop art?What are the similarities and differences in the work of Warhol and Shepard Fairey? Use written and visual examples to present your findings across 2 pages in your sketchbook. Make your double page visually exciting.

Shepard Fairey

http://www.243support.co.uk/__howTo/_imgs/243STENCILS.pdf

What is Street Art?How is it different from Pop

Art?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM2IW8hv5m8&safe=active

The History of Street Art

http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/audio/street-art-talks-history-street-art

Banksy

Banksy

EELUS

BTOY

Jef Aerosol

http://stencilry.org/main/

Cut out stencils and use a dry sponge and acrylic to create one colour stencil prints of people.

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Cut out stencils and use a dry sponge and acrylic to create a two colour stencil print of people.

Lesson 7

•Develop high contrast drawing using only •black white and mid toned grey.

Lesson 8

• Make a background to put your celebrity • stencils on. • Background can be:• Repeating Pattern (Shepard Fairey)• OR• Simulated Brick Texture (brick wallpaper)

HomeworkCreate your own Stencil

Look at examples by Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Eelus. You need to create a high contrast image first and then print this to card.Then cut out different layers carefully using a sharp cutting knife (be very careful!). Stencil print with acrylic and dry sponge or spray paint.  Level 5 Create a one layer stencil of your celebrity and print this into your sketchbook. ORCopy in detail one image by Shepard Fairey, Banksy or Eelus.  Level 6 Create a two layer stencil of your celebrity and print this in your sketchbook. This could be in black and white or two contrasting colours.  Level 7 to 8  Create a multilayer stencil (3 or 4 colours of differing values) of your celebrity and print this in your sketchbook. Scale up and print onto A3 board or canvas. Photograph your outcomes.

Lesson 9

• Discuss the use of repetition in the work of • Shepard Fairey;• Repeat stencil images across your background.

Lesson 10

• Continue with repeated motifs in the • background similar to the ‘Obey’ motif.• Include:• Text• Second colour stencil• Pattern• Collage

Lesson 11 and 12

• Cutting out main stencil of Celebrity.• Create test prints. • Print onto your background.

Lesson 11 and 12

• Print lightest layer first. • When dry repeat with mid tone • then finally the darkest tones.

Lesson 13

• Refine outcomes with further • use of patterns in the background.

Cover Task

Jamie Reid is a British born artist, most famous for his use of ‘ransom note’ style lettering.

Task

•Use an image of a celebrity.

•Tear areas away around the eyes and/or mouth for text.

•Stick down on a black background.

•Create a short message that relates to the person by using ‘ransom note lettering.’ The words could be lyrics, or famous quotations etc.

Street artist D*Face has referenced Jamie Reid’s work in this image of the Queen, but whose work is more shocking?

D*FACE