We continued our Inspiring Artists unit with a discussion on Piet Mondrian (March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944) who was a Dutch painter. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism. This consisted of white background, upon which he painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors. He called this type of painting "The Style".
This is a picture of Tableau I, 1921, which was also our inspiration of the day, and an example of neoplasticism.
We compared and contrasted Tuesday's drip art to Tableau I and with the following questions:
· How is Mondrian’s art different from that of Pollock?
· How is it the same?
· What makes both of them abstract? (abstract art has no subject. It is just lines, shapes, and colors.)
· What do you think Pollock was trying to express?
· Is Mondrian thinking about the same things in his art?
The students did very well using rulers for the first time to make their vertical and horizontal black lines.
We then used watercolor to fill in squares and/or rectangles using only the primary colors.
They were very proud of their artwork!
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