Andy Warhol was one of the most prolific & popular artists of his time. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations, & controversially blurred the lines between fine art & mainstream aesthetics.
Invitation to Paint a 3-D Banana
The “banana cover” Warhol created for the self-titled debut of the band The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) was one of his most widely known works like the career-making Campbell’s soup can. The banana cover was part of his agenda for turning everyday images into artistic statements. This banana was a pool noodle wrapped with recycled materials & then covered by butcher paper as the canvas to paint.
2. Invitation to Paint Andy Warhol's Happy Bug Day, 1950s.
After reading the Andy Warhol Happy Bug Day Board Book we created bug inspired art. First we painted butterfly cut outs with the new Colorations® Simply Shiny Washable Tempera, that was #gifted from Discount School Supply. Next they did stamp prints of bugs on poster paper.
3. Invitation to Create Andy Warhol's Flowers, 1964.
Instead of observing flowers in nature, Andy Warhol found his botanical inspiration in an issue of Modern Photography. He transformed a photograph of hibiscus blossoms into a technicolor series of silkscreens, simply titled Flowers. The children to sprayed green fluorescent tempera paint that was mixed with water into spray bottles onto black construction paper. After it dried we invited them to make sponge prints of flowers all over the butcher paper.
