Pop Art Collage - Group Project

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Pop Art Collage

This project was inspired by collage artist Michael Albert. We cut cereal and snack boxes then reconfigured them onto a piece of cardboard, adhering with glossy acrylic polymer. When the collage was complete we brushed on a layer of polymer which adds some protection, keeps the pieces in place and add a little shine.


Project length: The individual collages take about an hour to an hour and a half, including 5-7 minutes talking about the work of Michael Albert.

Materials:
- Gloss medium acrylic polymer (a plentiful supply is in the community room).
- Cereal or snack boxes. Normal thickness recommended. The large Costco boxes are much thicker and were difficult for the students to cut.

- Paintbrushes. The flat ones seemed to work better.
- Small cups, one for each student with about 2 tablespoons of polymer.
- Thick cardboard to put the collage pieces on. We used a 6x6 in size. A larger cereal box size may have taken too much time and felt overwhelming to some of the students.

We watched a 5 minute video from the artist's website, and I checked out his book, An Artist's America, from the library to show additional examples.

Welcome to our first art docent blog!

I'm trying blogger out to see if it might work for our needs and allow multiple art docents to publish projects and categorize them by grade and media. If I had a project to post, I could describe the process here and add photos like this.  I can also categorize using multiple labels that can be listed in the menu (on the left-hand side in this format).  We can change the look and many things about this blog template.

If we use a lesson from another website, we will need to credit them and post a link.
Let me know if you think this might work?

"Creole Dancer" by Henri Matisse.

A link with a good photo of Matisse using scissors:

http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/multiplicity/2014/03/matisses-cut-outs-sothebys-london.html