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- Students will use rulers to create geometrical shapes.
- Students will review their understanding of primary colors.
Materials - White paper
- Red, yellow and blue paints, markers, or crayons
- Black marker
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Paintbrush (optional)
- Water (optional)
- Containers (optional)
Procedures Give students background on Piet Mondrian and the painting style he invented. See the following paragraph. Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who was born in 1872. At one time, Mondrian painted realistic landscapes, but as he painted more and more, his style began to change. He started to create abstract images. How did he come to paint this way? The more Mondrian looked at trees, buildings, and vases, the more he saw their basic shapes and colors. You can try this too. Just squint your eyes while you are looking at something and all the details will start to disappear. You will see only shapes and color, no real objects. This is what Mondrian did. Eventually, Mondrian's style consisted of geometric shapes and primary colors. After all, every shape can be created from the basic geometric shapes and every color can be created from the primaries red, yellow, and blue. | |
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