This week students learned about the primary colors, red, yellow, blue. In our styrofoam prints we used line to make our images. Piet Mondrian used line to make bold divisions in his paintings he called compositions. He used paint he mixed to fill some of the square or rectangular shapes he created in his paintings with primarily primary colors! In this project students will create a grid with strips of black construction paper. I that grid students will choose how to fill the shapes. Keep the colors pure by having one space all red, all yellow, OR all blue. Have fun creating! At the bottom of this lesson there is a bonus project that you may choose to make in addition to the the "stained glass". You will need paper and coloring materials to create a drawing in the style of Mr. Mondrian. Materials
![]() Inspiration Piet Mondrian ( 1872-1944) was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914: "Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man.” His art, however, always remained rooted in nature.
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