This week we are exploring the Dutch Artist Piet Mondrain. We found out the following interesting facts about Mondrain and had a look a some of his interesting work.

This week really challenged our views on what artist’s works look like. Not all famous art work are paintings or interpretations of objects. In fact not all famous art work even uses paint at all!

• At first Mondrain painted landscapes like Monet. Then he decided he wanted to make pictures his own way and they turned more and more into shapes. – Toby
• Mondrain said if you look at objects and really look you can see them just as shapes. We tried it with things in the classroom and out the window. Trees I thought were more like triangles. – Issac
• Mondrain used yellow, red and blue. We learned these are called Primary Colours. – Becca

Can you try looking at the shapes in objects at home and making your own Mondrain inspired art?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSCmWnIoRpI