4. Mondrians Life 1872 Mar 7 Piet Mondrian is Born 1892
Mondrian Enters the Academy for Fine Art in Amsterdam 1909 Mondrian
joined the Dutch branch of the TheosophicalSociety 1911 Mondrian
Moves to Paris 1914 to 1919 Mondrian Visits Netherlands; World War
I Begins 1917 De Stijl Movement 1919 to 1938 Mondrian Returns to
France 1938 to 1944 Mondrian Moves to London and New York 1944 Feb
1 Mondrian Dies
5. Big idea 1Tableau No. 4; Lozenge composition with red, grey,
blue, yellow, and black.Modrians works were well thought out, he
would slightly deviate from Geometricsimplicity/regularity creating
very complex paintings.
6. Big idea 2Composition with BlueModrians works at first are
easily recognizable due to all the uprightorientation, but next,
the eccentricity of the lines, and substructures, makes it
difficult to find a focus.
7. Big Idea 3Mondrian Avoids dissatisfaction of viewer, more
specifically, 1) imbalance of placement or relative size of forms,
favoring the leftover right, the upper over lower registers, one
quadrant over another; 2) imbalance of weight of colors or
textures; 3) imbalance of vertical/horizontal linear elements; 4)
imbalance of closed/open planes; 5) imbalance of visual
interestTableau I: lozenge with four lines andgray
8. Georgia OKeeffe 1887-1986Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico
/Out Back of Maries II, 1930
9. OKeeffes Life Born 1887 in Sun Prairie Wisconsin (On a farm)
Later Moving to Williamsburg Virginia and attending TheChatham
Protestant Episcopal Institute Graduating in 1904 Studied at the
Art Institute of Chicago and Part of the ArtStudents of New York
1912 became a teacher of art and supervisor of art intexas,
continuing to be the head of the art department atwest texas state
college Caught attention in 1916 in her Stieglitz exhibition 1918
Left teaching to be a painter for Stieglitz 1924 Married
Stieglitz
10. Awards Elected to the American Academy of Arts andLetters
First retrospective show of a womans art atthe Museum of Modern Art
Awarded the Gold Medal of Painting by theNational Institute of Arts
and LettersAwarded the Medal of Freedom, the nationshighest
civilian honor President Ronald Reagan presented theNational Medal
of Arts in 1985.
11. Big Idea 1Grey line with Black, Blue and Jack in the Pulpit
No.IVYellow. 1923, Georgia OKeeffeOften confused for being simply
sexual,OKeeffes Paintings are meant to focus onfemininity and
tenderness.
12. Big Idea 2Cows Skull with Rams Head White Deers Skull
withCalico Roses Hollyhock and Little Pedernal 19361931 Hills 1935
Georgia OKeefe had a well known period where sheworked with bones
and the desert, these paintings were depictions of quietude,
remoteness, and preservancealong with the beauty of the
desert.
13. Big Idea 3Series 1, No. 1Series 1, No. 3 Series 1, No.
4Georgia Okeeffes works are usually made in series, this is how
sheexperiments with color and a little with shape by seeing the
effects ofcolor change, (with the occasional shape change) from one
paintingto the next.
14. Concluding slideI have a new found respect for
abstractionism,these few artists strove to explain theunexplainable
through art and I can onlyimagine how difficult this must have been
forthem. Also like when you learn a new language,there are certain
words in that language thatdont directly translate, so you have to
explainthrough images. I know how frustrating this canbe so I
appreciate these artists works muchmore deeply than before I
started this project.
