Primary colors with Mondrain

Discussion

Primary colors

What does primary mean?

What do primary colors do?

Where do colors come from?

Art and Artist

what was the artist trying to say by using only line and primary colors?

ARTIST: Piet  Mondrian

1872 – 1944),

He was a Dutch painter.

He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group

He evolved a form that consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.[1]

he termed his artwork Neo-Plasticism

In his most famous works: The black lines are the flattest elements, with the least amount of depth. 

The colored forms have the most obvious brush strokes, all running in one direction. Most interesting, however, are the white forms, which clearly have been painted in layers, using brush strokes running in different directions. 

This generates a greater sense of depth in the white forms, as though they are overwhelming the lines and the colors, which indeed they were.

PREPARATION: cut strips of black lines in short and long lengths. 

Project: Collage/painting inspired by Mondrian

Step1: using pre-cut black lines glue in grid like Mondrians

Step2: add as many or as few as you like

TO PREVENT COLOR MIXING: hand out plates of red paint, yellow paint and blue paint with brushes. do not put all three colors on one plate. 

Step3: in one small square add in the color red

Step4: in one small square add in color blue

step5: in one small square add in color yellow

Step6: make artist decisions about adding more square of colors and/or more black lines

MATERIALS: 

Pre-cut black lines

Tempura paint in red blue and yellow

glue sticks 

Scissors