Crafternoon: Mondrian Art

Crafternoons are afternoon craft programs for children in grades K-5. Held in the Community Room.

Learn how to make a work of art in the style of artist Piet Mondrian!

Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who was born in 1872. At one time, Mondrian painted realistic landscapes, but as he painted more and more, his style began to change. He started to create abstract images. How did he come to paint this way? Well, the more Mondrian looked at trees, buildings and vases, the more he saw their basic shapes and colors. You can try this too... just squint your eyes while you are looking at something and all the details will start to disappear. You will see only shapes and color... no real objects. This is what Mondrian did.

Eventually, Mondrian's style consisted of geometric shapes and primary colors. After all, every shape can be created from the basic geometric shapes and every color can be created from the primaries - red, yellow and blue. Join us as we create our own works of art in this fun and simple abstract style!