Onomatopoiea Words inspired by Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art!

In the 1950s and 1960s, young British and American

artists made popular culture their subject matter. 

By incorporating logos, brand names, television and

cartoon characters, and other consumer products 

into their work, these artists tested the boundaries

between art and everyday life. 

Roy Lichtenstein was one of the originators of this 

new pop movement. Fascinated by printed mass 

media—particularly newspaper advertising and 

cartoon or comic book illustration—Lichtenstein

developed a style characterized by bold lines, bright

colors, dot patterns, and sometimes words.

The art of today is all

around us. 

Roy Lichtenstein

"America's Worst Artist Ever??"


What is ONOMATOPOIEA?

"Splat, Giggle, Moo"


click here to learn more about Roy Lichtenstein from the National Gallery of Art

Inspired by Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream"

The Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is the title Munch gave to these works, all of which show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. Arthur Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time."^[1]

Edvard Munch created the four versions in various media. The National Gallery, Oslo, holds one of two painted versions (1893, shown here). The Munch Museum holds the other painted version (1910, see gallery, below) and a pastel version from 1893. These three versions have not traveled for years.^[2]

The fourth version (pastel, 1895) was sold for $119,922,600 at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art auction on 2 May 2012 to financier Leon Black,^[3][4] the second highest nominal price paid for a painting at auction.^[5] The painting was on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York from October 2012 to April 2013.

Also in 1895, Munch created a lithograph stone of the image. Of the lithograph prints produced by Munch, several examples survive.^[6] Only approximately four dozen prints were made before the original stone was resurfaced by the printer in Munch's absence.^[7]

The Scream has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, both The Scream and Madonna were stolen from the Munch Museum, and were both recovered two years later.

from wikipedia.com

Animal personification by grades one and two

First and second grade artists learned about Personification,  when an animal or an inanimate object takes on human characteristics.  We looked at examples in art of animal personification, then students drew animals that were personified.

William Wegman's personified Weimaraners 

Dogs playing poker by C.M. Coolidge 

The White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland 

Hamilton the dog snowboarding

A cheetah jumping into a foam pit

Ducky skiing 

Owl skiing

Giraffe admiring itself and getting ready for the red carpet

Stephanie the dog surfing 

Owl at work drinking coffee

Mouse delivering mail on a bike 

Owl wearing underwear and drinking a baby bottle 

Skunk dancing in the spotlight 

Cat doing a workout at a gym

Dog doing exercise outside 

Bear playing baseball 

Raccoon is stealing money and mouse is the police  

A peacock going to school 

A dog robbing a bank 

Owl eating pizza

Peacock wearing a hat and a skirt because she's going to a party 

A bat and a raccoon eating sandwiches, carrots and chips