piet mondrian
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Piet
Mondrian
Mrs. Hurd’s Craft Class
Amersfoort –Netherlands (1872)
Manhattan –
United States (1944)
He was 71 years old.
• Piet Mondrian began as an artist by painting realistic landscapes.
It's hard to imagine that he began as a landscape painter and was influenced by Fauvism, Symbolism, and Cubism on his way to his characteristic abstractions.• "In order to survive, Mondrian had been a painter of flowers on porcelain
for practically his whole life. Perhaps this explains his hatred of nature. ... [Mondrian] suppressed curves and all greens because they reminded him of trees, which he loathed. ... In 1924 the artist broke away from Theo van Doesburg, who ... maintained that the slanted line at a 45-degree incline better corresponded to the dynamism of modern man." (Art of Our Century, ed Jean-Louis Ferrier, page 429.)
Piet Mondrian developed an abstract simplified style which
combined squares and rectangles using only primary colors separated by black lines.
In his paintings there are GEOMETRIC SHAPES
RECTANGLESSQUARES
BOLD BLACK LINES
HORIZONTAL VERTICAL
Thick & Thin Lines
PRIMARY COLOURS
REDYELLOW
BLUE
Animated Shorts
Boogie Woogie
His life in animation
Jazzy
Vimeo
ExerciseCreate artwork in the style of Piet Mondrian
MaterialWhite paper & Sketchbook
Scissors
Glue
Pencil & Eraser
Construction paper in primary colors (yellow, blue and red)
Ruler
Sharpie
Example
CriteriaAll lines were made with a ruler
Crisp & Clean Lines
No smudges
No Extra glue at edges of papers
No visible Pencil Lines
Signed Bottom Right
Good use of Space
Used time wisely in class
Process1. Practice in sketchbook.
Create 3 thumbnail sketches.
2. Using the best sketch as a reference, cut out pieces of construction paper in priamarycolors that match the shapes of your sketch.
3. Glue them down with Elmer's white glue and create colourful squares and rectangles.
4. Some of the squares and rectangles should be white.
5. Finally, trace all the lines with a black marker.
Let’s work!