2nd Grade Piet Mondrian Cities from Above

Second grade students were introduced to the painting “Broadway Boogie Woogie” without much context. What could it be?! Elevators, roads, buildings, a video game, bugs and a map were all things that we came up with.

In fact, the artist, Piet Mondrian, was inspired to create this painting after moving to New York City! It is a bird’s eye view or aerial view of a city. The artist used a vibrant palette of only primary colors, black, and white. We used just the same.

The primary colors are the three core colors that cannot be mixed (red, blue and yellow. )They mix to create all of the other colors in the color wheel.

Student artwork to come.

 

We used square and rectangular pieces of cardboard  to design a horizontal and vertical overlapping building composition with tempera paint and oil pastels before using paper to collage over the top for details. Some of our details include roof top swimming pools, restaurants, gardens, lounge chairs, air conditioning units, helicopter landing pads, yellow taxis, bus stops, and more!


Here is a link to an interactive animated version of the painting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b85UBqUy28