This week, Firefly Art paid special tribute to one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century: it's our pop-art spotlight on Andy Warhol!
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a leading member of the Pop Art movement in the United States during the 1960s. His work explores connections between commercial and fine art, as well as advertising, celebrity, and consumer culture. He is most famous for his many screen prints, which borrow imagery from popular advertisements and magazines reproduced often multiple times with bright and starkly contrasting colors.
In Firefly Art, we often repeat that it's ok to copy another picture: this is often how new creations are born! While each week we copy one drawing to improve our own artistic skills, Andy Warhol took the idea of copying and mass reproduction to a whole new level by making hundreds upon thousands of copies of famous images in his work. Copying can be a way to explore all kinds of creative possibilities, something which excites our Firefly Artists every week!
For our Warhol tribute, our artists made reproductions of some of Warhol's most famously copied images: Campbell's soup cans, flowers, and other common objects. Our artists used bright florescent pastels to give their pictures that bright Warhol pop!
For more pop art excitement, be sure to check out the Crocker Art Museum's exhibition of Warhol portraits showing now! For more information on this fascinating showcase of Warhol's work right here in Sacramento, visit crockerartmuseum.org. We hope your little artist enjoyed this week's special art history spotlight: join us again next week, where we'll have a very special Earth Day celebration!
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