8th Grade Art Blog

The Andy Warhol challenge

2009-01-21T06:05:00.000-08:00

Pop art.

Andy Warhols Campbell’s soup can.

Challenge.

Take an everyday product that your family buys and uses and turn it into a work of pop art!

Andy Warhol took an ordinary soup can and turned it into an icon of 20th century art. One of the most famous artistic images ever. Can you do the same thing for a packet of pasta, a bar of soap, a tube of toothpaste?

Choose your product carefully!

The choice of the Campbell’s soup can was not an arbitrary one. It is colorful and lends itself easily to being drawn and painted. Examine the colours and shape of your product and its packaging.

Start with preliminary sketches in your workbook then using those, plan for a large painting of your chosen product or brand.

Take special care in drawing the letters and or numbers. Examine the font.

You should have at least 4 preliminary drawings in pencil.

You may wish to do some large drawings in charcoal before starting the painting. You may also use a mixture of charcoal chalk and paint.

Renaissance Games and information

2008-11-19T23:44:00.000-08:00

Follow these links to play some Renaissance games from our ex history teacher Mr Wrights blog and find out more about the Renaissance...

http://ismhistory.awardspace.com/bigrenaissancequiz.html

http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/

Renaissance Book Cover.

2008-09-25T04:35:00.000-07:00

You need to start thinking about the front cover of your renaissance book. Try and come up with some ideas about how you are going to decorate it. What kind of lettering? What Colour scheme are you going to use?

Remember the theme is the Renaissance so try and come up with ideas that will be in keeping with that.

Renaissance Fabric book

2008-09-15T03:29:00.000-07:00

As part of our Renaissance project students will make and embelish a fabric book. In order to make this students MUST get a piece of fabric which measures 70 x 100 cm.

Students will decorate and embelish the book using work from the various subjects involved in our Renaissance project.

Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance.

2008-09-02T00:49:00.000-07:00

This term in grade 8 we will be looking at one of the most important periods in history, not just in terms of art but also with regards to discovery in the sciences and the discovery of a new world!

We will be answering a guiding question based on Leonardo da Vinci, making lots of great art work and a TELEVISION PROGRAM!!

Check out the links on the Renaissance and Leonardo D.V. to find out more.

Homework

2008-05-06T05:07:00.000-07:00

For your project on milan and city scapes students need to get postcards and pictures of famous areas of milan.

also you need to take photos of the city and print them out. this is to make a visual resource in your work book.

Landscape/cityscape homework

2008-04-18T06:01:00.000-07:00

In your sketch book you need to build up a visual resource based on "Environments".

Collect pictures of which show;
Forests
Deserts
Streets
Cities
Jungles
Rooms
and so on....

cut these out and stick them in your sketch book.

Land and Cityscapes, the world around us.

2008-03-13T07:22:00.000-07:00

RAUSCHENBERG, Robert Estate 1963

Next term grade 8 will look at the environment in art. The environment can mean the natural environment or our man made environments. Students will be given the challenge to produce a piece of art using Milan as a starting point and stimulus.

Here is the information Mr. Kerr will give you to help you get started.

Milan and our Environment. How to get started.

What does “environment” mean? Look it up in the dictionary.
What kind of environment do you think might be good for the Milan council building art work to feature or be based on? Why? Look at artists who have worked on this theme before. Steal their ideas! Make a visual resource in your workbook of artwork featuring different kinds of environments, for example: ·

Interiors · Natural environments · Forest · Scrubland · Mountains · Desert · Seas and oceans · Pasture, grasslands and savannah · Jungle and rainforest · Man made and urban environments · Cities · Towns · Villages

Find pictures of different kinds of environments in newspapers and magazines. Use these for your visual resource in your workbook.

Look out of the window. That’s Milan!!

Start looking at the city you live in. Find pictures of the environment in and around Milan. What is Milan famous for? Which landmarks do we recognize in Milan? How could you add these into your artwork without making it banal?

Homework

Bring in newspapers (must be newspaper no magazines!!) which have pictures showing cities, the Corriere della Sera is a good one.

Bring in a spoon!

Roy Lichtenstien

2008-03-13T04:57:00.000-07:00

Grade 8 students are briefly looking at the work of artist Roy Lichtenstein as we finish off our study of Pop Art.

Here are some sites which have information on this artist;

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/lichtenstein_ext.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

Mimmo Rotella

2008-02-27T06:21:00.000-08:00

Look at the site below for some information on Italian artist Mimmo Rotella.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimmo_Rotella

Watch this video.

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=QDOrmBseFbQ

The gallery in the video is in the Brera district, you might like to go and visit it. It belongs to Zebina, the footballer.

"This is the kind of art I like because I have just bought a loft and it has big white walls", a quote from one of the "art critics" in the video. Brilliant!!

Pop art

2008-02-27T04:02:00.000-08:00

Students in grade 8 will study Pop art in the second term. we will look at a variety of artists such as Mimmo Rotella, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

2006-10-06T06:51:00.000-07:00

Pop art. Andy Warhols Campbell’s soup can.

Challenge.

Take an ordinary everyday product that your family buys and uses and turn it into a work of pop art.

Andy Warhol took an ordinary soup can and turned it into an icon of 20th century art. One of the most famous artistic images ever. Can you do the same thing for a packet of pasta, a bar of soap, a tube of toothpaste?

Choose your product carefully. The choice of the Campbell’s soup can was not an arbitrary one. It is colorful and lends itself easily to being drawn and painted. Examine the colours and shape of your product and its packaging.

Start with preliminary sketches in your workbook then using those, plan for a large painting of your chosen product or brand.

Take special care in drawing the letters and or numbers. Examine the font.

You should have at least 4 preliminary drawings in pencil.

You may wish to do some large drawings in charcoal before starting the painting. You may also use a mixture of charcoal chalk and paint.