Elements of ART
1) Color - all colors come from the three prime colors and
black and white.
All colors have three properties
Hue - A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint
Value - lightness and darkness
Intensity – the purity or strength of a color
1) f
2) Value – Lightness and darkness
3) Line - is the path of a point moving through space
4) Shape - 2 dimensional
5) Form - 3 dimensional
6) Texture - The surface quality of an object that we
sense through touch.
Atoms
Piet Mondrian: Composition II in
Red, Blue and Yellow (1930)
Today we will explore Piet Mondrian's quest to simplify art,
which will show us some similarities of content and process in
the two very different worlds of ART AND SCIENCE!
Through this power point and an activity we will
learn that:
• all matter is made up of atoms, which are far
too small to see directly through a microscope
• different arrangements of atoms into groups
compose all substance
ESENTIAL QUESTION: In what ways are atoms in
science similar to the elements of art?
• Dutch painter
• Began his career doing
naturalistic and
impressionistic landscapes
• As his style changed to nonrepresentational form
• He was influenced by Picasso
and Braque
Piet Mondrian
Born: March 7, 1872 in the
Netherlands
Died: February 1, 1994 in New York
• He named his new style NeoPlasticism
• Stijl art movement
Piet Mondrian: Red Tree (1908)
Piet Mondrian: Blue Tree (1909)
Piet Mondrian: Apple Tree (1912)
Piet Mondrian: Pier en oceaan (1914)
Piet Mondrian: Compostion No. 6 (1914)
Piet Mondrian: Composition (1916)
Piet Mondrian: composition with color planes and gray
lines 1 (1918)
Piet Mondrian: Tableau No. I or Picture No. 1
(1921/1925)
Piet Mondrian: Composition II in Red, Blue and
Yellow (1930)
How on Earth is Piet
Mondrian’s process related
to this class and more
specifically to atoms?
What do elements have to do with atoms?
Atoms are the basic
building blocks of
matter that make up
everything.
There are 103 types of atoms and there are 103 chemical
elements.
This is because each chemical element is made up of only
one kind of atom.
Elements are like Atoms
AND
Atoms are like Elements
Take a few minutes to sketch
• Hills
• Mountains
• Water
• Lake
• River
• Ocean
• Sun
• Moon
• Stars
• The atmosphere
• Air
• Clouds
• Sand
• Rocks
• Plants
• Tree
• Bush
• Flowers
• Wooden Fence
• Weather
• Rain
• Snow
• Sun rays
• Wind
• Air – the atmosphere
• Nitrogen
• Oxygen
• Water
• Hydrogen
• Oxygen
• The ground/dirt –
the solid crust
• Oxygen
• Silicon
• Aluminum
• Sun
• Hydrogen
• Helium
• Oxygen
• Stars
• Hydrogen
• Helium
• Iron
• Wood, Bark and
Vines
• Carbon
• Hydrogen
• Oxygen
Oxygen-O = cross hatching
Silicon-Si = color pencils
Helium-He = all prime colors
Carbon-C = texture
• Moon
• Oxygen
• Silicon
• Iron
• Sand and
Rocks
• Silicon
• Oxygen
• Plants
• Carbon
• Oxygen
Nitrogen-N = markers
Hydrogen-H = paper
Iron-I = crayons
Aluminum-Al = shapes