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!