Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
For some of his most iconic paintings, including celebrity portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol used photographs to create silkscreen “stencils,” pushing ink through the silkscreens and layering it on top of images he had already traced and painted by hand. For his Campbell’s Soup Cans, he used a slightly different technique, tracing the images using a projector and filling in the outlines using paint and brushes. Check out the books below to learn how Warhol and other artists created works of art that inspire our hearts.
Art Is Everywhere: A Book about Andy Warhol
by Jeff Mack
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua
by Gloria Amescua
The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
by Cynthia Levinson
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair
by Amy Guglielmo
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines
by Jeanne Walker Harvey
We Can: Portraits of Power
by Tyler Gordon
Jackie Ormes (Leaders Like Us)
by Miller
Just Being Dalí: The Story of Artist Salvador Dalí
by Amy Guglielmo
Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott
by Joyce Scott
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
by Javaka Steptoe
Iris Apfel (Little People, Big Dreams)
by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Hokusai: He Saw the World in a Wave (What the Artist Saw)
by Susie Hodge
The Story of Stan Lee (The Story Of)
by Frank J Berrios
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
by Eugene Yelchin
