Check out the artwork from School that the first graders are studying!!! This is art inspired by Piet Mondrian, a famous Painter.Piet Mondrian was a 20th century abstract painter whose most famous compositions are made up of black lines and colored rectangles. Mondrian's early works were naturalistic and impressionistic landscapes, but his discovery of cubism around 1910 put him on the path toward
pure abstraction. He left his home in the Netherlands for Paris in 1912, but returned to the Netherlands in 1914 to care for his sick father. He remained there during World War I, exploring abstract forms and formulating an approach he called neo-plasticism. Back in Paris after the war, he made what may be his most famous painting, Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue (1921), a composition of primary colors in rectangles on a grid of black lines. In 1938 he went to England and in 1940 he moved to New York, where he continued to discard "non-essentials" and restrict his works to "basic forms of beauty." Influenced 
by the philosophical approach of theosophy, Mondrian believed painting to be a two-dimensional interpretation of nature that is guided by the artist's intuition. His paintings include Still Life with Ginger Pot I (1911), Composition (1916) and Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43).I just loved this artwork the kids did...it was very inspiring to me....more to come!! hint hint...
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Love the lions! I am going to try something like this with my second graders when we study Piet Mondrian. Thanks for sharing. (Do you what they used for the first pic? It looks like something clear?)
ReplyDeleteIt was just clear actetate that they used - like a transparency sheet. I so loved this project - so did the kiddos!
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