Pop art is and art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States in the mid and late 1950s. Pop art challenged the traditions of fine art by including images from popular culture. The pop art artists used daily products and well known people to make their art. In pop art vivid and flashy colors are mostly used and forms like dots and sharp lines.

In my dress I used one of the strongest colors: Red. My dress also has dots on and a lipstick that counts as a daily product.

Some important things in textile is to know about proportions and how to sketch. Before we designed the dress we learned how to draw bodies with the right proportions so we could sketch the designs on them later in the right proportions. This is why proportions are important. The word “textile” is from latin and means “to weave”, consequently the profession is called textile (Because the textile is made from weaving, knotting and pressing the fibers together). The textile industry is mostly concerned with the design, production and distribution of yarn, cloth and clothing.

COMPETENCE

Use colors and form-elements in practical work to create decided expressions in products.

Use digital tools in presentation and dokumentation-work.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Use a mind map to develop ideas. Make a pop art inspired collage. Use sketches to show different ideas. Make a dress of paper. Publish a blog post about the task.

ASSIGNMENT TEXT

1 | MIND MAP  Make a mind map with POP ART as inspiration.

2 | COLLAGE  Make a collage with POP ART as inspiration. A3, Free technique.

3 | SKETCHES Make sketches of minimum three different dresses. The sketches should show the form and color of the dress.

4 | DRESS Make a dress with the collage and your sketches as a base. The dress should be made in 1:1 size. Free technique. Material: Paper. Color: Paper/ Painting / Spray….

5 | BLOG Publish a blog post. The post should show collage, sketches and the dresses prosess, and the finished result. It should also describe your inspiration and idea, prosess and reflection around the finished product.

6 | DISPLAY The dress should be a part of the display “POPART” and is exhibited in one of the school-halls.

Hello, I am back! This time we were supposed to make a pop art inspired dress of paper. Our teacher told us that we could make whatever kind of dress we wanted, as long as it had something to do with pop art. We were allowed to use all kinds of paper. Before we could start designing the dress we learned a lot about the history of pop art. We worked with drawing silhouettes, sketches, form and proportions, before we started making the dress. Afterwards we had to make a collage, mind map and three different sketches to get inspiration. We were supposed to do this in a timeframe of 45 school-hours.

Hello, my name is Sandra and i’m going the first year on design and craft. In this blog I will post pictures and write about what I do at school.

Thanks for joining me!

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