Collage Lesson 2 Mondrian Me SD Introduction
Collage Lesson 2 Mondrian Me SD Introduction In this activity you will use Fraction Mash to create a piece of art that resembles a work by Piet Mondrian, a Dutch modern painter known for his abstract art work featuring vertical and horizontal lines. As you build your masterpieces, keeping fractions in the mix, you will also use Algebraic equations to help keep track of the fractional components of each color, as well as your original selfie. In the end, your class will take a gallery walk of everyone’s Mondrian selfportraits.
These images show the progression of mashups and remixes made with Fraction Mash, starting from a selfie up to a final collage with a student in the mix of a Mondrianish piece of art.
What is a Mondrian? Who? When? Why? Example of a painting by Mondrian. Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who lived from 1872 to 1944. In his lifetime he created a large, diverse body of work, but he’s most famous for his grid paintings that used primary colors, like the one on the right. For our purposes, these paintings are a great opportunity to think about collage of blocks of color, and the fractional pieces that make up the whole.
To do: 1) Start with a selfie on one side of Fraction Mash. Fill the screen with your face as much as possible. 2) Make sure the five colors above are saved on your camera roll. On the other side of the Fraction Mash screen, start with a 5 by 5 square grid pattern, and use white as it will set the blank canvas to then add the rest of the colors. In your first Mondrainstyled self portrait, we’re also going to suggest denominators and grids to use. After you make the first one, you will create your own, with whatever denominators you wish. 3) As you create the first, and following mashups, keep track of the fractional components in the table below. You might want to use Algebra to help this process. 4) After you mashup white with your selfie, save that image. Then, import that first mashup, onto one side of Fraction Mash, and one of the other colors on the other side. 5) For your first collage, ONLY use square or rectangular grid options, and only multiples of 5. 6) Repeat the remix process until you have a collage with your selfie, and all the colors represented. 7) Fill in the chart with the final fractional components for each color and your selfie. 8) Trade iPads with a classmate. Figure out the fractional components that make up their design. You will get a free amount of info on their final mashup screen, but it might be tricky to find the other fractions. 9) Now you’re ready for your masterpiece. Start back at the beginningtake a new selfie if you’d like. Stick with square and rectangular grids the way Mondrian did, but now is your chance to get creative with the denominators you choose. Just be aware that the more complex your denominators, the harder it will be to keep track!
My first MondrianMe (Note: You might start with a fraction of white, but make sure to amend your calculations if you add colors on top of white partitions.)
Fraction of Selfie
Fraction of white
Fraction of blue
Fraction of yellow
Fraction of red
Fraction of black
Sum of the parts
My classmate’s MondrianMe (Their name:_______________________) Fraction of Selfie
Fraction of white
Fraction of blue
Fraction of yellow
Fraction of red
Fraction of black
Sum of the parts
My MondrianMe Masterpiece Fraction of Selfie
Fraction of white
Fraction of blue
Fraction of yellow
Fraction of red
Fraction of black
Sum of the parts
Questions: 1) Which color shows up the most in your first collage? Why? 2) Which color shows up the most in your masterpiece? Why? 3) How did equations help to keep track of the fractional components? 4) Describe how you found the fractional components of your classmate’s collage.
5) Solve the following three problems. a)
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6) Choose one of the problems above and explain how it could be represented by a picture made with Fraction Mash? (Hint: It could involve a remix.) 7) How is the image you described in #6 like the images you made in this activity?
