Piet Mondrian

Background & Art Focus

He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg.

He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism.

This consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors

More Background...

De Stijl ,Dutch for "The Style", also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 in Amsterdam. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands.

Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.

Examples of Work

Reason for selecting this piece

Simple

Not very time consuming ( 1 or 2 classes)

Fun

Can be used with ANY age

Cross Curricular connections

- Science

- primary colors

-Social Studies

Lesson Plan Overview

Objectives: Have students do a project that relates directly to the work of a famous artist.

Materials: Poster paper, Paints ( water paints or oil based paints),felt pens, rulers

Classroom set-up: desks are set up into pods

Steps

1. Explain Mondrian background and show the students examples

2. Have the students use a ruler to make the lines on the paper

3. Have the students use a sharpie to go over the lines

4. Students will use fill in the spaces they wish using paints, felts or crayons.

( Teacher can decide which technique)

Get Creative with it!

Thank you!!!