#AMoAArtChallenge
AMoA wants to challenge you to make art at home and share it with us!
Each Monday morning we will announce the week's AMoA Art Challenge prompt on our website and social media. Participants will have the week to create their responses and submit them to us via email on Friday afternoon. Over the weekend, our guest juror will select a winner which will be announced on Monday. Each week’s winner will be featured on the AMoA website and social media.
Participation in the AMoA Art Challenge gives the Amarillo Museum of Art permission to use images of submitted artwork. These images may be used for, but not limited to the following: AMoA printed materials, museum marketing, including digital platforms, and the AMoA website.
Lichtenstein Pop Art
Lichtenstein Pop Art
AMoA Art Challenge #7
Drawing heavily from popular culture, like cartoons and advertisements, Roy Lichtenstein is key to the Pop Art movement. Creating his images on canvas by hand, Lichtenstein recreated exaggerated versions of the dot pattern formed when ink is applied during printing. Also called Ben-Day dots, these circles were an analog reproduction of a mechanical process and became a signature of his work.
Be inspired by popular culture! Using the materials of your choice, create a work of Pop Art in the style of Roy Lichtenstein. For more information on Roy Lichtenstein, click here:
www.moma.org
www.lichtensteinfoundation.org
www.tate.org
HOW TO PARTICIPATESubmit artwork by 3 pm on Friday, May 29
Email an image (hi-resolution) of your completed artwork to dmcraighead@actx.edu
Include #AMoAArtChallenge in the subject line
Be sure to include title of artwork, medium, artist’s name, and age (1-18 or adult).
This week’s guest juror will be Terry Martin, Abstract Artist and AMoA Alliance Board Member.
Winner will be announced at 10 am on Monday, June 1.
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CASSATT MOTHER & CHILD
Cassatt Mother & Child
AMoA Art Challenge #6
Mary Cassatt was an American artist, feminist, and active member of the French Impressionist circle, alongside such artists as Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Developing a close relationship with Degas, he had significant influence on her painting style and use of new materials and methods such as pastels and printmaking. Cassatt is best known for her images of mother and child, which she treated with warmth and intimacy.
In honor of Mother’s Day, be inspired by Mary Cassatt. Using the materials of your choice, create your own scene of mother and child.
For more information on Mary Cassatt, click here:
www.marycassatt.org
www.metmuseum.org
www.britannica.com
MATISSE CUT-OUTS
MATISSE CUT-OUTS
AMoA Art Challenge #5
Henri Matisse was a french artist who dramatically changed the course of modern art. Part of the Fauvist movement (fauve is french for “wild beast”), Matisse is best known for his “wild” use of bright colors and dramatic brush strokes. When advancing age and ill health hindered his ability to paint, Matisse developed a bolder and more simplified aesthetic. Using nothing but white paper, gouache and scissors, he created cut paper collages that continued to redefine the brilliance of his career.
Get wild with shape and color! Using simple materials such as paper, paint and scissors, create a cut paper collage in the style of Matisse.
For more information on Henri Matisse, click here:
www.moma.org/interactives
www.tate.org
www.metmuseum.org
SURREALISM WITH
SALVADOR DALI
SURREALISM WITH SALVADOR DALI
AMoA Art Challenge #4
Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist who drew on the imagination and the subconscious to create dream-like imagery. One of the founders of the Surrealist movement, Dali experimented with creative thought and new ways of seeing the world. Not limiting himself to painting, Dali also created films and sculptures of the bizarre and the impossible. His most famous work of art, The Persistence of Memory, dispenses with reality and permanence as clocks melt amid a bleak landscape.
Let your dreams be your inspiration! Working in the medium of your choice, create a surrealist work of art.
For more information on Salvador Dali, click here:
www.moma.org/artists
www.tate.org/kids
www.thedali.org
FRANK STELLA
Art of the Protractor
FRANK STELLA and the ART OF THE PROTRACTOR
AMoA Art Challenge #3
An American abstract painter, Frank Stella created his minimalist works in response to the Abstract Expressionist movement of the mid-twentieth century. Influenced by artists such as Jackson Pollock and Donald Judd, Stella experimented with precise bands of vibrant color, shaped canvases and cut out forms, eventually moving into minimalist sculpture. The artist is best known for paintings such as the ‘Protractor’ series, which marry aesthetics and geometry.
Be inspired by Frank Stella! Working in the medium of your choice, break out your protractor and create a painting in the minimalist style of Frank Stella.
For more information on Frank Stella, visit these sites:
www.tate.org.uk/art
www.tate.org.uk/kids
www.sfmoma.org
MONET SPRING LANDSCAPE
MONET’S SPRING LANDSCAPE
AMoA Art Challenge #2
Spring is upon us and we are taking our inspiration from artist Claude Monet. Considered the father of impressionism, Monet was well known for his landscape paintings and depictions of the leisurely life of Parisians at the end of the 19th century. Working outside, and often in series, Monet studied the effect of light at various times of day and throughout the seasons.
Be inspired by Monet! Using the medium of your choice, create a landscape in the style of Monet that reflects the changing season.
For more information on Claude Monet, click here metmuseum.org
Picasso Self-Portrait
PICASSO SELF-PORTRAIT
AMoA Art Challenge #1
Using the medium of your choice, create a self-portrait in the style of Pablo Picasso. Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramicist and is one of the most prolific artists of the past 100 years. His style was ever evolving, but he often returned to a particular combination of cubism and abstraction which incorporates geometric forms and thick, black lines.
Using your own face as inspiration, use shapes, lines and pattern to create a self-portrait. For more information on Pablo Picasso, click here metmuseum.org