I introduced Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol to my students along with an exercise using the color wheel. The students decided whether to channel Johns or Warhol and then whether to use opposite colors or analogous colors for their pieces. I encouraged mixing their own shades of color instead of simply using the premixed color in the bottle. I love the way these are turning out!
Jasper Johns adhered to a strict set of motifs for a career that has spanned over 50 years, Johns combines texture, color, and line to create compositions that are inspired by known images, the most famous of which being flags, maps, and numbers.
For Jasper Johns, the familiar objects and signs of everyday life are ideal subjects for art. It was a radical notion in the mid-1950s.
Andy Warhol’s works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962).
