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Pop Art and Color

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Mini Color Review

The Color Wheel is a visual representation of the spectrum of color. It consists of


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twelve warm and cool hues (Hue is the word used to describe a pure color) and
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visually describes the relationship between them.
Primary Colors (red, yellow and blue) are the three hues that cannot be mixed
or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are created from
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Primary Colors
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Roy Lichtenstein, 1960’s


Secondary Colors (green, orange and violet) are the colors formed by mixing the
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primary colors
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Secondary Colors

Andy Warhol; 1968


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Tertiary Colors (red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet
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red-violet) are the colors formed by mixing one primary and one secondary color.
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Tertiary Colors

Paul Cèzanne; 1880’s


Complementary Colors are the colors directly across from each other on the color
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for instance red and green. When used together, complementary colors
show heavy contrast and are useful when you want to make something stand out.
Complementary Colors

Vincent Van Gogh; 1889


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Analagous Colors are any colors that are side by side on a 12 part color wheel, such
as yellow, yellow-orange and orange.
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Analagous Colors
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Claude Monet; late1800’s


Tints of hues are created by adding white to a color
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Light Tint Palette

Claude Monet; early 1900’s


Shades of hues are created by adding black to a color
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Dark Shade Palette

Georgia O’Keefe; 1920’s–1960’s


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Tones of hues are created by adding grey to a color
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Tones Palette

Pablo Picasso; 1903


Monochromatic Color Palette

Pablo Picasso; 1900–1904


Cool Colors

Pablo Picasso; 1900–1904


Warm Colors

Jasper Francis Crospey; 1840’s–1880’s


Why we’re talking about color…
Pop Art
• An artistic movement of the 1950’s and 60’s in Britain and the
United States.
• Art that employs aspects of popular/mass culture such as
famous people, advertisements, comic books, or even common
objects such as Campbell's soup.
• Pop artists experimented with color and color schemes as a way
to manipulate the viewer’s experience of our cultural icons.
• Andy Warhol is considered one of the founders of this style.
• Emphasis on mass consumption and mass production (use of
printmaking processes)
Visually characterized by bold shapes, simplified forms, clear lines, everyday
imagery, and vibrant block colors arranged in varying schemes.
Andy Warhol; 1960s
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol; 1960s
Andy Warhol; 1960s
Andy Warhol; 1960s
Our Project:
• You will each create a series of linoleum carved Pop Art inspired self portraits that
experiment with several (at least three) different color schemes.
• We will take self portraits in class, manipulate them in the computer and transfer
the resulting simplified image onto linoleum blocks.
• We will be embracing the mass production nature of the Pop Art movement and
making many copies of our prints while experimenting with at least three
different color schemes.
• For your three color schemes, you may choose three (or more!) from the
following: Analogous, Complementary, Warm, Cool, and Monochromatic.
But first, we’re going to play with color for a few classes…
…by making monochromatic color collages based on tints, shades & tones of a single color.
Brett Day Windham, Contemporary American Artist
Brett Day Windham, Contemporary American Artist
Brett Day Windham, Contemporary American Artist
Brett Day Windham, Contemporary American Artist
Brett Day Windham, Contemporary American Artist
Our Mini Project:
• Inspired by the artwork of Brett Day Windham, you will each create a small
monochromatic color collage comprised of tints, shades and tones of a single
color.
• We will spend two classes gathering your tints, shades and tones and then two
classes collaging. Keep this timeline in mind as you work — it’s a short one!
• You do not need to fill the entire page (make a big rectangle) and instead you
should think about how your collage will exist within the blank canvas of your
sheet. Create a non-representational “shape” to guide your collaged composition
before you begin gluing— this shape can be organic, geometric, or relate to a
specific idea that you may have for your piece.
• You are each to decide on a singular method for distributing your tints, shades
and tones within your collage. Is it a gradual steady gradation from light to dark,
a gradation of hues within your monochromatic palette, or are you using another
method to thoughtfully distribute your shades, tints and tones? Decide on your
tactic before you start gluing.

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