Pieter Mondrian (1872-1944) Straight-Line Collage

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Pieter Mondrian(1872-1944)Straight-Line
Collage
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About Peter Mondrian

• Dutch abstract painter
• Neo-Plasticism paintings
• White background
• Grid of horizontal and vertical black lines
• Primary Colors
• Born in Netherlands, 1872
• Studied teaching art
• Also lived in Paris, France London, England -
  New York, USA

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Composition II
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Composition Red, Yellow, Blue
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Vocabulary

• Informal / Asymmetrical Balance

• Formal / Symmetrical Balance

Unbalanced
Unbalanced
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Vocabulary

• Grid - A pattern of regularly spaced horizontal
  and vertical lines forming squares or rectangles
• Negative Area The space between elements

Mondrians Composition 10
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Broadway Boogie-Woogie
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Imitating Mondrians Style
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Art Masterpiece Project

1. Cut out squares rectangles
2. Arrange shapes on white paper
3. Leave some areas of white paper visible
4. Use Informal / Asymmetrical Balance
5. Glue shapes
6. Use black strips to make the grid design
7. Use only squares, rectangles and black lines to
   create your masterpiece