The Primaries

The Style or De Stijl. It sounds classy. You probably recognize the pattern of many De Stijl paintings. The artwork consists mainly of rectangles,squares,stripes,the primary colors, black and white. Are these hard and fast rules? No.

The students are finishing their De Stijl geometric projects using paper,glue and markers this week. Here is the example I made to show the students; it is reminiscent of the art work of Piet Mondrian.

Here are some of the works by students-

Next week we will begin to learn about Art Deco, Values and Shading.