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Re: Mondrian question

From: C. Pelgrim (cpelgrim)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 03:39:30 PST

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    From: Kimberly Herbert <kimberly>
    To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet>
    Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 6:20 PM
    Subject: Mondrian question

    > **Before you get angry with me please remember I am an elementary teacher
    > who works under an arts all level teacher at the museum.
    > When Mondrian moved to the United States in 1940, was he fleeing Hitler
    and
    > the Nazis. The timing is right and Mondrian's work would have made him a
    > target of the Nazis. The kids are really enjoying our activity based on
    > Broadway Boogie Woogie and I want to give the students and their teachers
    > more information. A government trying to silence artist is also a great
    art
    > issue to discuss with the classes, if I can relate it to the activities in
    > an exhibit. We are using 4 activities based on different artists (+ Found
    > object sculpture and free painting) to go with a children's art exhibit.
    The
    > Gifted and Talented program (3rd & 4th grade) studied different artists
    and
    > techniques for a semester. Our exhibit is their final projects.
    >
    > Kimberly Herbert (kimberly)
    > CAM Administrator
    > San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts/Children's Art Museum
    >
    >
    >
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    >
    > Hello, Kimberley
    more information you can find on:
    :http://parallel.park.org8888/Netherlands/pavilions/culture/mondriaan/eng/bi
    ography.html.
    > Being a Dutchman Mondriaan was always very international orientated. He
    had already contacts in America (he was very jazz-minded).Before going to
    New York he lived a short while in Great Brittain (he could have stayed
    there). His departure to New York had certainly to do with the coming of
    nazism in Europe, on the other side he was very attracted to the dynamism of
    modern life (New York).
    Greetings from the Netherlands
    Cees Pelgrim 

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