Coins

Our entire art class painted 18 life sized dimes from 1933.  They were going to be used as stage props for a dance production.  We could think of this as a service project, or we could think of it as an exercise in Pop Art. We will be reproducing an over-sized silver dime, an item of popular culture. The 3-D aspect of the stage prop will give the artwork a sculptural quality and recall the art work of the great 1950's to present, Pop Artist, Claus Oldenburg. He is famous for creating large scale sculptural reproductions of common everyday objects.  Painting all of these coins was pretty tedious and it took a really long time.