This year we are all painting a lot at school. There are many art activities suggested from the school library in order to read and learn about artists and their works. Modern artists felt that earlier art was elitist. Henri Matisse at the end of his life painted with cutouts. Pop Art artists, like Lichtenstein and Warhol, wanted to make art for the masses.
HENRI MATISSE
Henri Matisse was born in 1854
and died in 1989. When he was a child he lived in a little village in France. He
studied laws and worked as an office worker.
When he was twenty he was sick
in bed for a long time. His mum gave him a box of paints and then he started
his true vocation. At the beginning he copied other artists. Then he was very
interested in colours, not in form or rules. (by 6º C)
ANDY WARHOL
Andy Warhol was born in 1928
in Pittsburg Pennsylvania and died in New York in 1987. When he was 8 years old
he was sick and his mum taught him to draw. He was a quiet and shy child, but
he loved drawing, photography and films. His dad wanted him to go to University
to study art. He moved to New York City in 1959 and became a famous and very
rich artist. He used commercial and repeated images and pictures of famous
people too. He called it pop art. He said “Art is business”. (by 6º B)
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Roy Lichtenstein is one of the most important pop art artists. He was born in New York in 1923. Inspired by Picasso, he started to paint at home. His early works were portraits of jazz musicians, carnival pictures and boxing combats. He painted what nobody liked. He explored popular culture, what we can see in magazines, adverts, and comics. The ordinary and the repeated were his source of inspiration. (by 6º A)
