Piet Mondrian art bio for children

1. Do you
like this
picture?

2. This is the man who
painted the picture. His
name is Piet Mondrian.

3. Piet was
born in
1872.

4. At first Piet loved
painting things the way
they looked.

5. But his style
started changing.

6. Can you find the tree?

7. Can you
guess what
Mondrian
painted in
this picture?

9. THIS IS A VERTICAL LINE

10. Mondrian uses HORIZONTAL and lines
V
E
R
T
I
C
A
L

11. Can you find some HORIZONTAL lines?

12. Can you find some VERTICAL lines?

13. Mondrian liked to
use lines put
together as
squares and
rectangles.

14. Can you find
any squares
or
rectangles?

15. Placing these squares
and lines on the
canvas was very
important to Mondrian.

17. He liked to use the PRIMARY
colors red, yellow, and blue.

24. Can you see the vertical and horizontal lines?
What about the squares and rectangles?

25. MONDRIAN was
inspired to make the
painting BOOGIE
WOOGIE by looking
at the grid map of
the city of New York
and the style of
music he liked
dancing to, Jazz.

26. This painting
called Victory
Boogie
Woogie was
left unfinished
at his death.