Creative activities for nurseries and schools to accompany the 'Beethoven by Warhol' exhibition

'Beethoven by Warhol' museum tour with creative activities

Children and young people will learn fascinating facts about the Pop Art artist Andy Warhol, his connection to Beethoven and, of course, a great deal about the composer himself.

The guided museum tour can be combined with a range of creative activities: through these activities, children and young people follow in the footsteps of Warhol’s legendary ‘Factory’ and explore selected aspects of his work: the principle of repetition, the use of different materials and textures, and his techniques of planographic, intaglio and relief printing, which are brought to life using simple materials. Creativity is key here, as things are encouraged to get colourful!

True to Andy Warhol's motto that ANYONE can be an artist, children and young people become artists in their own right here.

Duration:
Museum visit: 45–60 minutes
Creative activities: 60 to 90 minutes

Cost:
€5 per person, including admission, a guided museum tour and creative activities,
free admission for 2 teachers

Marbling like Warhol
Nursery and primary school

Dip marbling is one of the techniques Warhol frequently used. However, it doesn’t always have to be as labour-intensive as his method. Beautiful, unique works of art can be created using simple materials.

The Rorschach technique – we can do that too
Nursery and primary school

A crease, a bit of paint, and you’re ready to create reflections … Warhol’s Rorschach technique produces fantastic shapes and motifs that are always different.

One thing keeps coming back
Years 2 to 6

Warhol loved to create the same motif over and over again in ever-changing colour variations.

That’s exactly what we do in our art workshop too: your own hand, Beethoven’s water jug, his walking stick or even his violin – lots of colours and a single print, and a colourful work of art is created.

The individual children's works are well suited to being combined in the classroom to form a collective work of art.

Flower (s) Power (ed) by Warhol
From nursery onwards

Warhol’s series of square ‘Flowers’ is legendary. The children follow Warhol's lead and paint, stick or stamp flower motifs in bright colours onto pictures of Beethoven that they’ve already seen in the exhibition.Or the other way round: printed Warhol flower pictures are painted, decorated with stickers or stamped with Beethoven motifs.

'Ode to Food'
From Year 5 onwards

Drawing inspiration from one of Warhol’s most famous artworks and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”, the young people explore the form of the ode and the question of when and how an everyday object becomes art. Afterwards, all participants immortalise their favourite product in a work of art – whether in verse, as a painting or a print.

'King of Selfies' – (Self-)Portraits
Silkscreen printing

From Year 4 to Sixth Form

Whilst Beethoven is depicted without a wig in most portraits, Warhol enjoyed experimenting with wigs and identities. Equipped with a Polaroid camera, wigs and other accessories, the children and young people create their own self-portraits, which are then transferred onto foil and ‘embellished’ in Warhol's style.

Blotted Lines
From Year 10 onwards

The 'blotted line' technique – the technique of rough, dabbed lines – was used by Andy Warhol to reproduce and vary the design of his drawings. The outlines of a chosen object, pencil transfers and ink are the key elements. The intensity of the printed lines varies, and ink splashes and gaps are intentional. The resulting copy is then coloured in.