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56 European art, craft and desil \ ) Art ( G ) Craft (B) D esign

OutcomePointillism, paintingpictures with dotsof pure colour

Abstrac tion, PietMondrian (1872-1944)

SubjectViews across the land andsea, actors, actresses andcircus performers.

Mondrian started as apainter of landscapesand trees.

ElementsColour and tone, light andshade, pattern and space.

He emphasised thehorizontal and verticallines and filled in thespaces with plain colours.

Joseph Beuys(1921-86) Germaninstallation andconceptual artist

Pushing traditionalartforms beyond normalboundaries. Art and life arenot separate things; Beuyslives his art and art becamehis life.

Space, form, ideas,experience, the body (hisbody), ideas and emotions.

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Pixel art, computergraphics, eBoy Cities, vehicles, buildings,machines, airplanes. Isometric perspective, 3-Dform and space.Com position No. 10 , 1939-42, with Blue,

Yellow an d Red,oil on canvas,79.5 x 73 cm,Piet Mondrian(1872-1944)

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Media Intent Follow-up/LinksOil-painted dots, specks anddashes of bright coloursthat blend together whenviewed from a distance.

Semi-scientific approachto art. You, the viewer,have to make the effort to'f inish' the picture off inyour own mind as you lookat it.

Georges Seurat (1859-91)invented the technique, PaulSignac (1863-1935) also usedit . Photographs in magazines areprinted using dots of ink: look atone using a magnifying glass.

Drawings in crayon,charcoal; paintings inwatercolour, o il.

Gradually reduced hiscompositions to the mostbasic simple geometricforms and primary colours.

For more information abouthim and to view a largecollection of his work anddeveloping style, look atwww.mondriantrust.com.

Hard and soft materialsincluding wood, metal andstone. All sorts of foundjunk, industrial felt, wax andanimal fat.

Beuys lived his belief thatart can change society; hewas a philosopher as well asan artist.

Work included a Volkswagenvan pulling some sledges.VW cars have featured a lot inart, for example see an examplein Tom Wesselmann, LandscapeNo.2, on page 68.

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All computer-drawn using'Photoshop' software.

To represent popularculture: shopping, Lego, TV,toy commercials, computergames and the media.

Theo Van Doesburg (1883-1931)created isometric drawings inpaint on paper for the de Stijlgroup in 1923.

Pine free at St Tropez, 1909, oil on canvas, Paul

Signac (1863-1935)AOAGP, Paris and DACS,London 2005

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