Do you like this picture?

This is the man who painted the picture. His name is Piet Mondrian.

Piet was born in 1872.

At first Piet loved painting things the way

they looked.

But his style started changing.

Can you find the tree?

Can you guess what Mondrian painted in

this picture?

THIS IS A VERTICAL LINE

Can you find some HORIZONTAL lines?

Can you find some VERTICAL lines?

Mondrian liked to use lines put together as squares and rectangles.

Can you find any squares

or rectangles?

Placing these squares and lines on the canvas was very important to Mondrian.

He liked to use the PRIMARY colors red, yellow, and blue.

Can you see the vertical and horizontal lines?What about the squares and rectangles?

MONDRIAN was inspired to make the painting BOOGIE WOOGIE by looking at the grid map of the city of New York and the style of music he liked dancing to, Jazz.

This painting called Victory

Boogie Woogie was

left unfinished at his death.