Word is not just for writing text. You can create your own art using tables or shapes.
While you use your imagination, you will learn about tables, cells, rows, columns, shading, borders, merging and splitting cells whilst creating an attractive artwork based on art styles such as De Stijl, Dada, Analytic Cubism, Hard Edge Painting, Geometric Abstraction. If you wish to know a little more about these movements scroll to the bottom of this web page.
There are 2 tasks. You must complete Task 1 and you can complete both. Use colours you like because it will become the picture on your computer desktop. If you have a partner, they will make their own picture.
Task 1
Piet Mondrian, an artist of the De Stijl movement, used a white background ground and the 3 primary colours, you may devise your own scheme. It could be multicoloured, warm colours, cool colours, or shades of a colour.
The only "rule" is that the same colour cannot share an edge.
While you use your imagination, you will learn about tables, cells, rows, columns, shading, borders, merging and splitting cells whilst creating an attractive artwork based on art styles such as De Stijl, Dada, Analytic Cubism, Hard Edge Painting, Geometric Abstraction. If you wish to know a little more about these movements scroll to the bottom of this web page.
There are 2 tasks. You must complete Task 1 and you can complete both. Use colours you like because it will become the picture on your computer desktop. If you have a partner, they will make their own picture.
Task 1
Piet Mondrian, an artist of the De Stijl movement, used a white background ground and the 3 primary colours, you may devise your own scheme. It could be multicoloured, warm colours, cool colours, or shades of a colour.
The only "rule" is that the same colour cannot share an edge.
Steps
Need some inspiration? Take a Look at the Masters in Symbaloo - they may give you some ideas. |
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Grouping Background Key:
Red = De Stijl Orange = Hard Edge Painting Purple = Dada Yellow = Analytic Cubism Grey = Geometric Abstraction |
Task 2
You are going to be an abstract expressionalist and Word will be your canvas.
Background
Abstract Expressionism is a style of art in which LINE, SHAPE, COLOUR, TEXTURE and/or a lack of detail emphasize a MOOD or feeling.
Abstract art sometimes uses GEOMETRIC SHAPES and bold, bright COLOUR in an exaggerated way to express the subject of a painting—MOOD. Sometimes Abstract art is a simplified style that is intended to just create emotion and deliberately abandon any resemblance to the natural world. Geometric SHAPE can be used exclusively in Abstract art to take the place of any recognizable natural or manmade object—in other words, a nonrepresentational or nonfigurative shape.
Abstract art is usually active, interesting and fun. However, this type of art bothers many people. They feel that “real” art must represent actual or natural objects. Some people cannot simply understand that the Abstract artist just wants to create a feeling or MOOD with the artwork, and nothing else.
Geometric Abstract art is meant to be enjoyed just for the BASIC ART ELEMENTS or PRINCIPLES that are represented in the work—colour, line, shape, texture, space, repetition, or movement.
Take a look at the grey tiles on the symbaloo page for ideas.
How To...
The only "rule" is that the same colour cannot share an edge.
You are going to be an abstract expressionalist and Word will be your canvas.
Background
Abstract Expressionism is a style of art in which LINE, SHAPE, COLOUR, TEXTURE and/or a lack of detail emphasize a MOOD or feeling.
Abstract art sometimes uses GEOMETRIC SHAPES and bold, bright COLOUR in an exaggerated way to express the subject of a painting—MOOD. Sometimes Abstract art is a simplified style that is intended to just create emotion and deliberately abandon any resemblance to the natural world. Geometric SHAPE can be used exclusively in Abstract art to take the place of any recognizable natural or manmade object—in other words, a nonrepresentational or nonfigurative shape.
Abstract art is usually active, interesting and fun. However, this type of art bothers many people. They feel that “real” art must represent actual or natural objects. Some people cannot simply understand that the Abstract artist just wants to create a feeling or MOOD with the artwork, and nothing else.
Geometric Abstract art is meant to be enjoyed just for the BASIC ART ELEMENTS or PRINCIPLES that are represented in the work—colour, line, shape, texture, space, repetition, or movement.
Take a look at the grey tiles on the symbaloo page for ideas.
How To...
The only "rule" is that the same colour cannot share an edge.
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Art Movements |
De Stijl
De Stijl (sounds like ‘duh style’) was an artistic movement in the Netherlands from 1917 to around 1928. Artists such as Piet Mondrian, who you’ll learn about tomorrow, wanted to simplify the subjects of their painting as much as possible until they were left with only lines and simple colours. They used only red, yellow, and blue, and black, white, and grey. De Stijl was confined to the Netherlands because the country did not involve itself in World War I so the Dutch couldn’t leave the country during the war.
Dada
The Dadaists meant to turn our world upside down, to make it seem crazy and absurd. They meant for us to rethink the items that surround us so that we might rethink our world. The artists known as Dadaists thought that World War 1 was a terrible thing. They thought it was ridiculous for people all over the world to spend years killing each other. Because the war shaped the world in which these artists lived, this distaste for WWI became a distaste for the state of the world.
The Dadaists protested the war and the current culture through their art.
Cubism to Analytic Cubism
In the early 1900s, some artists became interested in African and Native American art. The styles of those cultures inspired cubism.
Cubism began in France in 1907. Pablo Picasso and George Braque began painting figures that were made up of cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, and other geometric shapes. The paintings looked like someone had cut them up and glued them back together.
Then in the 1930's came brighter colours, ornamental patterns, undulating (wavy) lines, and rounded as well as jagged shapes. This was known as analytic cubism.
Hard-Edge Painting
The term Hard-edge painting was coined in 1959 by art historian Jules Langsner to characterize the nonfigurative work of four artists from California in an exhibition called Four Abstract Classicists. The term then caught on after British critic Lawrence Alloway used it to describe contemporary American geometric abstract painting featuring an “economy of form,” “fullness of color,” “neatness of surface,” and the nonrelational, allover arrangement of forms on the canvas. This style of geometric abstraction refers back to the work of Josef Albers and Piet Mondrian. Artists associated with Hard-edge painting include Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Brice Marden, Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, and Jack Youngerman.
De Stijl (sounds like ‘duh style’) was an artistic movement in the Netherlands from 1917 to around 1928. Artists such as Piet Mondrian, who you’ll learn about tomorrow, wanted to simplify the subjects of their painting as much as possible until they were left with only lines and simple colours. They used only red, yellow, and blue, and black, white, and grey. De Stijl was confined to the Netherlands because the country did not involve itself in World War I so the Dutch couldn’t leave the country during the war.
Dada
The Dadaists meant to turn our world upside down, to make it seem crazy and absurd. They meant for us to rethink the items that surround us so that we might rethink our world. The artists known as Dadaists thought that World War 1 was a terrible thing. They thought it was ridiculous for people all over the world to spend years killing each other. Because the war shaped the world in which these artists lived, this distaste for WWI became a distaste for the state of the world.
The Dadaists protested the war and the current culture through their art.
Cubism to Analytic Cubism
In the early 1900s, some artists became interested in African and Native American art. The styles of those cultures inspired cubism.
Cubism began in France in 1907. Pablo Picasso and George Braque began painting figures that were made up of cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, and other geometric shapes. The paintings looked like someone had cut them up and glued them back together.
Then in the 1930's came brighter colours, ornamental patterns, undulating (wavy) lines, and rounded as well as jagged shapes. This was known as analytic cubism.
Hard-Edge Painting
The term Hard-edge painting was coined in 1959 by art historian Jules Langsner to characterize the nonfigurative work of four artists from California in an exhibition called Four Abstract Classicists. The term then caught on after British critic Lawrence Alloway used it to describe contemporary American geometric abstract painting featuring an “economy of form,” “fullness of color,” “neatness of surface,” and the nonrelational, allover arrangement of forms on the canvas. This style of geometric abstraction refers back to the work of Josef Albers and Piet Mondrian. Artists associated with Hard-edge painting include Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Brice Marden, Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, and Jack Youngerman.