Pop Art Self-Portraits
Posted by Krissy PondenOne of the most notable artists of the Pop Art era, Roy Lichtenstein’s enlarged versions of pulp comics taken out of context provided an interesting parody of the more high brow paintings of the previous generation that had been lauded by critics and largely inaccessible to the lay person. The seventh grade students created their own versions of Lichtenstein’s iconic portraits using themselves as models in unusual situations. Limited to a palette of yellow, red, blue, and black and white, they also learned about the significance of Ben-Day dots in early printing and Lichtenstein’s liberal use of them in his paintings.
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