Students will learn about the art style of Objective: Students will design and create artworks that show their understanding of the principles and elements of design. They will learn to use a ruler to draw vertical and horizontal lines that make rectangles. Students will understand primary colors. Students will be able to recognize paintings by Mondrian. Purpose: Students will learn about the art style of Piet Mondrian. They will create visual artworks that represent the style of Piet Mondrian. The completed artworks will show students’ understanding of rectangular geometric shapes and primary colors.

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ART VOCABULARY Piet Mondrian Primary colors Vertical line Horizontal line Rectangular geometric shapes Representation

Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist who was famous for making paintings with lots of geometric shapes. He used a ruler to make straight lines across his paper, and he filled in the shapes with color.

He is regarded by many as founder of abstract art.

Mondrian moved to New York in 1940 to escape World War II. He loved city life, the artist was extremely productive and completed a large number of paintings. Mondrian's late works color and grid-like patterns to give a feeling of the fast-paced rhythm of city streets.

Check out this Piet Mondrian inspired car!

Piet Mondrian RED, YELLOW & BLUE! Piet Mondrian used the three primary colors a lot in his artwork. Do you remember what the three primary colors are? RED, YELLOW & BLUE!

USING A RULER draw vertical and horizontal lines that make a “T” (not just a grid) making rectangles. LOOK some are large rectangles and some are small they are NOT all the same size.

Using PRIMARY colors, FILL in the rectangles. Try to make rectangles that touch different colors

GLUE pre-cut black paper strips around the rectangles.

Student Work