four fun art styles for the classroom

Pop Art

Pop art is an art style that everyone is familiar with. The pop-art movement began around 1950, it is based on simple bold images painted in bright colors. when you hear pop art you may thing of Andy Warhol who is known for the painting of Campbell's soup and many other pop-art styled pieces. he is probably one of the most well-known pop artists. Another popular pop artist is Ray Lichtenstein. His pop art was a comic book style, with hard edges and bold colors. Pieces like the drowning girl are very popular for showing this comic book style. pop art is a very fun style to practice in the classroom, self portraits are a good way to practice the pop art style given that many pop artists painted celebrities.

*Just remember that is you give the pop art style a try, use bold lines, bright colors, and if you feel like it add in some Ben-Day dots.

Andy Warhol Campbell's panting

Roy Lichtenstein Drowning girl

Photo Realism

photorealism like pop art became popular as a counter to Abstract Expressionism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Photorealism is probably the hardest style to execute, it takes a lot of skill and knowledge of not only your subject but your materials in order to create a realistic piece. Photorealism is when the artist will study a picture and then try to recreate it as realistic as possible within other media such as painting or drawing. One of the most popular photorealism artists is Tjalf Sparnaay. He is very well known and recognized for his phenomenal photo-realistic paintings of food.

Cubism

Cubism was invented around 1907-1908 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They would bring different views of subjects together to make a very abstract piece. Picasso’s very celebrated painting 'Demoiselles D'avgnon' has been credited with the beginning of Cubism in 1907. The name Cubism, on the other hand, came from a comment made by the critic Louis Vauxcelles who seen some of Georges Braque’s work and pointed out how everything was reduced to geometric outlines or cubes. By breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas – or planes – the artists aimed to show different viewpoints at the same time and within the same space and so suggest their three-dimensional form.

Demoiselles D'avgnon Pablo Picasso

Bottle and fishes- Georges Braque

Arte Nucleare

This style seems most fun to practice because you have to put yourself in the mindset the artist were in, during this time nuclear warfare was a threat so you must think of the feeling and fears of these artists. The art group was founded in Milan in 1951 with the goal to make art in response to the nuclear age. The movemento d’arte nucleare was founded by Italian artist Enrico Baj. Joined by Sergio D'Angelo and Gianni Bertini , with later joining Gianni Dova they created art that depicted a nuclear age. The name Arte Nucleare loosely translates to art for the nuclear age. In the early 1950s, Baj created paintings with mushroom clouds in devastated landscapes. In later paintings and collages, he gave them names such as ‘heavy water’ and ‘fire fire’. These paintings were made to warn the dangers of the misapplication of nuclear technology.

Fire Fire -Enrico Baj

Come here Biodina -Enrico Baj