Week 15: James Rizzi

SEE THINK WONDER

What do you see in the picture? What do you think is happening and what was the artist trying to tell you with this picture? What does this picture make you wonder about?

James Rizzi

(October 5, 1950 – December 26, 2011^[1]) was an American pop artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He best known for his vibrant, youthful graphics and his three-dimensional prints. He was the official artist for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, adorning the famous logo with his noodle-like drawing style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rizzi http://www.artnet.com/artists/james-rizzi/

Assignment:

Draw a line across your paper a few inches from the bottom.
Study the picture of Baltimore city. Use it as a model to make a row of buildings on the line you drew to create a cityscape.
Now draw a row of buildings across the bottom of your page in the front of the buildings you just drew. Erase any lines from the buildings in the first row that you can see inside your second row of buildings.
Using the reference sheets, draw cartoons on your faces. What emotions or attitudes can you give your buildings?
Add windows to your buildings by basing them on the shapes of windows in the photograph of Baltimore.
Color your picture. Do not forget to add color and detail to the sky.

Vocabulary

Pop art: an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.^[1][2] The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects. One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.^[3]

Cityscape: a picture of a city

overlapping

placement

expression