Mrs. Katona's Art Class
First Grade Artists
Piet Mondrian Inspired Art
First grade art students at Meadowbrook started out the year learning about the abstract painter from Holland, Piet Mondrian(1872-1944). His artwork is dominated with geometric shapes. First graders learned to make these shapes with black horizontal and vertical lines. Students learned that the primary colors are red, yellow and blue or colors that cannot be made. According to Mondrian, these were not only the primary colors but the purest of colors. He ended a friendship because his friend argued that Piet should include green in his work. Mondrian’s most recognized art included the primary colors and straight lines. The style he developed was called neo-plasticism. His most famous painting is called, Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue painted in 1921. First graders created their own art works with this knowledge and what they created was fantastic.