Pendant les vacances de Pâques du mardi 18 au vendredi 21 avril, les enfants de 6 à 13 ans vont s’éclater avec le Pop Art!
A l’instar des artistes pop des années 1950 à 1960, ils iront puiser leur inspiration dans les médias de masse, comme les films, la publicité, la télévision et les bandes dessinées (comics) pour réaliser des oeuvres d’art pleines d’humour et d’originalité.
Dans les pas d’artistes tels que Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, les enfants expérimentent la peinture acrylique et le caoutchouc mousse, entre autres, pour réaliser des tableaux et des sculptures dans la veine pop.
Quelques mots sur le Pop Art (uniquement en anglais pour le moment)
The Pop Art movement started in the 50’s in London with a group of artists called the Independent Group. It was a rebellion against the Abstract Expressionists, who were considered to be pretentious. It has changed the way we experience culture, making it widely available. Today the aesthetics of Pop Art still influence fine art and mass media.
The movement had migrated to the United States by the late 1950s. Pop artists celebrated consumerism with a good amount of humour. They extracted visual material from its context and isolated it or associated it with other subjects, using satire to allow the viewer to reflect upon what it symbolized.
Food was an important theme in the pop movement, as well as household objects, such as chairs, toilets and other banal items.
Obviously, Pop Art was closely bound to the pop music phenomenons of the 50s’ and 60s’ and with famous bands, performers and celebrities, like The Beatles, Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe.
Pop artists experimented with collage. Their work was composed of “found” objects such as advertising, comic book characters, magazine covers and other mass produced graphic works that represented American culture.
An important Pop Artist, Roy Lichtenstein, developed a painting style based on comic strips. His paintings had bold colors, black outlines, and tones rendered by “Ben-day dots” (see above). Comics books’ tones were printed with this method comic books during the 1950s’ and the 1960s’.Yellow, red and blue were mainly the colors used by the artist.
In general, Pop Artists’ colors were vivid with strong saturation. On the contrary to Expressionism, Pop Art’s colors didn’t reflect the artists’ inner-self, but referred to the popular culture.
Amongst the movement’s most well-known artists are Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Keith Haring.
Andy Warhol experimented with techniques such as silkscreen printing, which was a widely popular technique used for mass production. He thought that “everybody should be a machine.” As a result, he tried to make his art look like it was created by a machine. He also said: “In the future everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes.”, thus summarizing the Pop movement and the increasing importance of television and mass media.
Another interesting figure of Pop Art is an artist named Keith Haring, who had at heart to make his work widely available to the public. He lived in New York and used the city as his canvas: “Riding the subway, he noticed the black paper rectangles of empty advertising panels on station walls; using white chalk, he began filling these black panels with simple, quickly drawn pictures.
Keith Haring drawing in the subway; early 80s. Photo by Chantal Regnaul.
His signature images included dancing figures, a “radiant baby” (a crawling infant emitting rays of light), a barking dog, a flying saucer, large hearts, and figures with televisions for heads. These graffiti drawings attracted the attention of New York commuters, as well as the city authorities: Haring was arrested for vandalism on numerous occasions.Haring soon began to apply his universally recognizable imagery to freestanding drawings and paintings. The energy and optimism of his art, with its bold lines and bright colors, brought him popularity with a wide audience. (…)
Always wanting to make his art more accessible, Haring opened a retail store called the Pop Shop in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood in 1986; the shop sold posters, T-shirts and other affordable items featuring Haring’s signature designs. Over the brief span of his career, the artist completed more than 50 public works, including the anti-drug mural Crack is Wack in a Harlem playground and an illuminated, animated billboard of his “radiant baby” image for New York’s Times Square. He also hosted numerous art workshops for children.” (c.f. http://www.biography.com/people/keith-haring-246006)
Informations pratiques
Date: du mardi 18 au vendredi 21 avril 2017
Heures: 14:00 à 17:00
Age: cet atelier est recommandé aux enfants de 6 à 13 ans.
Lieu: Atelier du Square, rue François Bonivard 4, 1201 Genève. Google maps.
Tarif pour la semaine: CHF 220.- par enfant matériel et snacks inclus.
Tarif par après-midi: CHF 65.- par enfant matériel et snacks inclus.
Inscriptions : Merci de télécharger la fiche d’inscription ici. SVP la compléter et signer, la scanner ou la photographier, et la retourner à [email protected]. Le paiement est du à la signature de la fiche d’inscription (voir la partie consacrée aux paiements par e-banking). Merci.
Information : Eurydice Labaki, [email protected], +41 (0) 78 696 12 45
