Warm- Up- What is the difference between these two compositions?

Lines: The Simple Beauty

An artist that dared to be different Piet Mondrian Born March 7, 1872 Dutch painter, theorist and draughtsman. Worked in the Neo-Impressionism Period and Cubism The essence of Mondrian’s ideas is that painting, composed of the most fundamental aspects of line and color, must set an example to the other arts for achieving a society in which art as such has no place but belongs instead to the total realization of ‘beauty’. The representation of the universal, dynamic pulse of life, also expressed in modern jazz and the metropolis, was Mondrian’s point of departure… Resource: "THE COLLECTION." MoMA.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Sept

Neo- Impressionism

Piet Mondrian Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue

Composition 1

Apple Tree in Flower

An artist that dared to be different Sky Kim Was born in Seoul, Korea Received a masters degree in painting at Pratt Institute in New York Often does abstraction Consisting of lines and movement. Describes her work as “… (a)tug of war embedded in the organic undulations in my work. The shapes are comforting, yet dizzying; fluid, yet stagnant; organic, yet abstract; delicate, yet obsessive. Resource:. ails/sky_kim/

Sky Kim Her work is often found on long scrolls

Types of lines Diagonal Jagged Curved Broken Thick Thin Fluid Horizontal Vertical Straight Echo Radial Intercepting Parallel

Expressive lines are curved, adding an organic, more dynamic character to a work of art. Expressive lines are often rounded and follow undetermined paths

Implied lines are lines that are not necessary drawn in an image, but are lines created by values, colors, textures or shapes that guide the eye though the piece of artwork

Examples

Task: Line work Success Criteria: I can use expressive and directional lines. I can use a variety of thick and thin lines I can create a balanced piece of art I can take a risk creatively. Purpose: To create a beautiful art made up of lines, movement, emphasis, and balance