Smart With Art K-2

These Kindergarteners - 2nd Graders did an amazing job learning about Andy Warhol and painting these adorable cats in the style of Andy Warhol's Red Sam

Smart with Art students will have their artwork displayed in the hallway.  All artwork will go home with students on the last day of class.

Andy Warhol  (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a big influence in the 'Pop Art' movement.  He began as an illustrator for advertisement companies, which greatly influenced his style as he crossed over to doing fine art.  He is probably most widely known for his Campbell Soup silk screen rendering.  He can be credited for the term “15 minutes of fame” as he used this term in an interview and later a book he wrote.  He is a chart-topper in terms of value of his art; one of his paintings, “Eight Elvis’”, sold for over $100 million dollars.

Pop Art – an art movement of the late 1950s that challenged tradition by showing that common or commercial seen in popular culture can be translated into a “fine art” perspective, blurring the lines between the two.

Cats – early in his career, he created several whimsical drawings of cats and created a book titled, “25 cats named Sam”.  We used his love of cats and his drawings as inspiration for creating a watercolor depiction using his love of color and whimsy to give it a setting and unusual hues.  Each artist used pencil to draw their cat, pick their colors, and provide a background – creating their very own one-of-a-kind masterpiece!