Composition A, Piet Mondrian

Art Activity Video: Piet Mondrian Collage

Today you will get to make a painting just like the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian!
Activity best for children ages four and up

Piet Mondrian was a painter from the Netherlands that became famous in the 1920s for his abstract art. Abstract art is art that is not immediately recognizable as a person, place, or thing. Instead, abstract art uses colors, lines, shapes, or textures to help represent an object. Piet Mondrian used the same colors and shapes in his paintings to represent different objects or feelings. He is best known for using: red, blue, yellow, white, and black squares, rectangles, or lines. Today you will get to make your own twist on a Piet Mondrian painting by creating a colorful collage!

MATERIALS

  • Old magazines or newspapers

  • 1 square piece of white paper

  • Gluestick

DIRECTIONS

STEP 1

Cut out strips, rectangles, or squares of red, yellow, blue, and black from magazines.

Cut out strips of magazine

STEP 2

Think of an object in your house. Lay out your strips and squares to represent this object.

Placed magazine strips

STEP 3

Glue down your strips and squares. Enjoy your art!

Lamp shape colored in with black marker.