Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist born in 1872 who developed an abstract style using primary colors, black lines, and rectangles and squares. This style began with realistic landscapes but evolved to only use basic geometric shapes separated by horizontal and vertical black lines. The document provides instructions for recreating Mondrian's abstract artwork using materials like colored paper, scissors, and glue to cut and arrange primary colored shapes within a grid defined by pencil lines traced in black.

1. Piet
Mondrian

2. Amersfoort –
Netherlands (1872)
Manhattan –
United States (1944)
He was 71 years old.

3. • Piet Mondrian began as an artist
by painting realistic landscapes.

4. Piet Mondrian developed
an abstract style which
combined squares and
rectangles using only
primary colors separated
by black lines.

5. In his paintings there are….
RECTANGLES

6. SQUARES

7. BLACK LINES
HORIZONTAL VERTICAL

8. PRIMARY COLOURS
RED
YELLOW
BLUE

16. Exercise
Create one of the Mondrian’s artwork.
Material
White paper
Scissors
Glue
pencil
Sheet papers in primary
colours (yellow, blue and red)
Ruler
Black felt-pen

17. Process
1. Draw on a white paper horizontal and vertical
lines using a pencil and a ruler.
2. Try to create rectangles and squares.
3. Cut small pieces of papers in primary colours.
4. Stick them to create colourful shapes.
5. Some of the squares and rectangles should be
white.
6. Finally, trace all the lines with a black felt-pen.

18. Let’s
work!