Today for the summer learning journey I had to make Mondrian Art using Google sheets. Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, who was born March 7, 1872, Amersfoort, Netherlands and died February 1, 1944, New York, New York, U.S., painter who was an important leader in the development of modern abstract art and a big part of the Dutch abstract art movement known as De Stijl or “The Style”. I decided that I should do one with a meaning and one without a meaning. The one with the meaning is a park bench with trees around it. I used green, white, brown and grey. The one without a meaning is dark blue, cyan, yellow, red, grey and white. Did you know that the people that made it used to make art with landscapes and not just Mondrian art? I enjoyed making the meaning less one because the colours did not have to be right next o each other. I found it tricky to make the one with a meaning because it took a lot of making sure the colours were in the right place. So at the end I made sure all of them were in the right place before putting them on my blog. Next time I would find the area of my colours for the step it up.
Here is the one with a meaning:
Here is the one without a meaning:
Kia ora Kylah
ReplyDeleteBenjamin here from the SLJ commenting team.
Awesome effort with these two works of art, Mondrian would be proud! Before I even read your description, I saw the first image and thought it looked like a waka perhaps or a home on stilts. I love the way it made me think and imagine. It strikes a good balance between ambiguity and illustration. Fair enough that it was a lot harder to make, the effort really shows :).
The second one is good too but I find it kind of unsettling the way the colours are all separated. It gives me a sense of loneliness..
Did the de stijl artists use the mondrian style to make art with meaning like your first one or without like the second one?
Thanks Kylah, great work,
Benjamin
Kia ora Benjamin!
DeleteThank you so much for commenting on my blog!
Sorry for the sense of loneliness I gave you. I think they only made them without meaning like the second one.
Mā te Wā,
Kylah
Kia ora Kylah,
ReplyDeleteI am working as a Manaiakalani Outreach facilitator in schools.
What a great idea to have an artwork in The Style and to add your own meaning.
I know some Riverdale learners used Scratch to make Mondrian art work as well. Have a look at Gabriel's example.
Mrs Krausse
Kia Ora Maria!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for commenting on my blog!
I have looked at Gabriel's blog.
It is so cool!
Mā te Wā,
Kylah