The document provides information about several abstract artists including Chuck Close, Piet Mondrian, and Wassily Kandinsky. It discusses how each artist was influenced by other movements or artists and developed their own abstract expressionist or cubist styles. It also includes examples of individual works by each artist and suggests activities and videos for replicating aspects of their styles.

1. Abstract
Art & Artists

2. Find a bunch of abstract art pictures
here that flash at you

3. Elements of Art
- Line and Colour -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjUVRrQA
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4. Chuck Close
Chuck Close was born in the U.S.
When he was 11, Close saw an
exhibition of Jackson Pollack's
abstract paintings. Afterwards, he
went home and dripped paint on
his paintings. Pollack’s artwork
helped to inspire Close’s painting
style.
Throughout his career, Close has
concentrated on painting portraits
based on photographs he has
already taken. His art style has
been called Abstract Expressionism.

5. Chuck Close was influenced by
Jackson Pollock
Art Style – Abstract Expressionist
How much do you think the
painting below is worth
8, 80 or 88 million dollars?

7. Chuck Close
Do you know what this is?

8. Did you guess right? “Emma”

10. Chuck Close, “Self Portrait, 2000”

11. Chuck Close’s Portraits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgsFYXsdcp0

12. Chuck Close“Long before I was physically disabled, I was learning
disabled,” Close said. “ At that time there was no such
thing as dyslexia. You were just dumb and lazy.”
In addition to dyslexia, he had neuromuscular
problems, so he couldn’t run or throw a ball. He
wanted desperately to get attention, so he decided to
focus on what he could do and not on what he could
not do.”
So he turned to art. He started his formal training as an
artist when he was eight.
Close also suffers from a condition called face
blindness. By painting portraits, he is better able to
recognize and remember faces.
“Everything that I do is a direct outgrowth of my
learning disabilities,” Close said.

13. Chuck Close
Art Lesson Video
http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=jbcP8zNrqsk&feature=rel
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http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=tc4riuAerPg

14. “Close” style value painting

15. “Close” style value painting

16. ”Close” style painting
1.Make a grid of eight lines across by six down the side
2. draw in your shapes
3. use 3 values per square

17. Piet Mondrian
He was born in the
Netherlands, which is part
of Europe in 1872. He was
an art teacher at the
Academy of Fine Arts in
Amsterdam.
Mondrian’s early paintings
were of the world around
him. He discovered
Cubism in 1911 and was
influenced by Salvador
Dali.

18. Piet Mondrian was influenced by
Salvador Dali
Art Style - Cubism

19. Piet Mondrian – “Composition with
Yellow, Blue and Red” 1942

20. Mondrian’s Influence today
His paintings became so
famous in the decades
that followed his death
that other painters,
advertisers, architects,
graphic designers, and
even high fashion
clothing designers
around the world copied
his distinctive style.

22. Mondrian style

23. Mondrian Jazz
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ChAf5Mf
RVs

24. Stijl, Piet Mondrian Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=eoRj
KUrvRkk&feature=endscreen

25. Piet Mondrian Style
Lost in the City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b85UBqUy
28&NR=1

26. “Mondrian” style paintings

27. “Mondrian” Style grid
1. draw the lines on the paper using a ruler
2. draw a minimum of six horizontal lines
3. draw a minimum of 4 vertical lines
4. fill in some spaces with primary colours
5. leave a few spaces blank
6. paint your black line, use a marker or a piece of rope dipped in black paint

28. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Art Style - Abstract
Born in Moscow, Russia. His family travelled a lot so he had
a chance to go to Italy and other places. He played the cello
and the piano.
He became a law professor at the university of Moscow.
He did not go to art school until he was 30.
His artistic development was shaped greatly by an
exhibition of French impressionist painters. The
impressionists used values of color and light to show their
subjects rather than painting them in fine detail. In Monet's
paintings the subject matter played a secondary role to
color. In Monet's paintings the subject matter played a
secondary role to color
He settled in Germany after World War I where he taught
art at the Bauhaus school and painted until the Nazis came
into power. At that point (1933), he went back to France
where he remained for the rest of his life.

29. Kandinsky was influenced by
Artistic Style – Impressionism
Claude Monet Paul Cezanne

30. Kandinsky “Squares with Concentric
Circles,” 1913

31. Musicolor Kandinsky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d63qohWJ-
o&feature=related

32. Abstract Acrylic Painting
Kandinsky style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq1-
NsFrbs4&feature=related

33. Kadinsky” style paintings
1. use a ruler to make a grid
2. make 4 horizontal and 4 vertical lines
3. draw at least 3 cirlcles in each square
4. paint using at least 3 different tones of the same colour
5. they don’t need to be in the same square

34. What is Abstract Art?
• 1. How is colour used in abstract art?
• 2. What are the paintings about, ex. Animals, people, landscapes?
• 3. What kinds of shapes did the artists use in their paintings?
• 4. How did the paintings make you feel, ex., happy, sad, mad?
• 5. How do you think that the artists wanted the paintings to make you feel?

35. What is Abstract Art?
Abstract artists felt that paintings did not have
to show only things that were recognizable. In
their paintings they did not try to show people,
animals, or places exactly as they appeared in
the real world. They mainly used color and
shape in their paintings to show emotions.
Abstract art is not painted to look like something
specific.