What is Art?

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What is Art?
Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (15031505/1507)Louvre,
Paris, France
Painting TitleThree Musicians - 1921
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What is Art?
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Non-objective Art

• Art that is purely an arrangement of line, color,
  shape, form or texture and that does not show any
  recognizable person, place or thing.

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Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian, Composition with Yellow, Blue, and
Red, 1937-42, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 69 cm, Tate
Gallery. London.
Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue, and
Yellow, 1930
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Piet Mondrian
Mondrian, PietBroadway Boogie Woogie1942-1943Oi
l on canvas50 x 50 in. (127 x 127 cm)The Museum
of Modern Art, New York
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Kandinsky, Composition VII 1913 (200 Kb) Oil on
canvas, 200 x 300 cm (6' 6 3/4" x 9' 11 1/8")
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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Kandinsky, Composition VI 1913 (170 Kb) Oil on
canvas, 195 x 300 cm (6' 4 3/4" x 10') Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg
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Instructions

• Draw one large circle anywhere on your paper
• Draw one medium circle anywhere on your paper
• Draw 3-6 small circles anywhere on your paper
• Use your ruler to draw three vertical lines
  anywhere on your paper
• Use your ruler to draw two diagonal lines which
  must intersect at least one vertical line and one
  circle each
• Use your ruler to draw three more diagonal lines
  which are going in the opposite direction of your
  first set of diagonal lines
• Draw two more vertical lines within one inch of
  one another on any part of your paper
• Draw two horizontal lines within one inch of one
  another anywhere on your paper
• Draw two triangles anywhere on your paper