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MASTERPIECE MONDAY - MEET THE ARTIST
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist who was best known for making abstract paintings. Abstract paintings don’t represent objects from our everyday world. Instead, abstract art uses shapes, color and texture to represent ideas. Although he is best known for this kind of art, Mondrian originally painted very realistic images. He especially liked trees and flowers!
This fun VIDEO is a timeline of Mondrian’s work, set to his favorite kind of music, Boogie Woogie.
Piet Mondrian Portrait
Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow - 1930
MATH
Mondrian’s paintings are not just beautiful works of art. They are also mathematically interesting!
You can learn about FIBONACCI NUMBERS at this site. Once you’ve learned about this special sequence of numbers, you can try to create a FIBONACCI MONDRIAN painting!
The Mondrian Squares Riddle has fascinated mathematicians for years! If you are someone who really likes to solve puzzles and riddles, then this TED-Ed LESSON is just what you need to introduce you to this artistic math problem!
WATCH + LEARN
Painting, with Lego! Watch this fun stop motion animation film inspired by Mondrian’s art.
This song by Ok GO is a fun way to learn about the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow, which are the colors Mondrian used most often in his paintings.
CREATE
Making Mondrian inspired artwork is a great way to explore color, shape, and lines! These are all fun and easy activities that will bring out your inner abstract artist!
GET OUTSIDE
Lily--1921
Chrysanthemum-1906
Mondrian once said that he enjoyed painting flowers, “Not bouquets, but a single flower at a time…”
Head outside with paper, crayons, watercolors, or markers. Find a flower you like and draw or paint a picture of it. Take a photo and send it to Explore More! We want to see what you are creating!