Masterpieces to Mathematics

Fraction, Decimals, and Percentages in Optical Art

Ellsworth KellyAmerican artist, “Twentieth-century painter and sculptor”

In the 1950’s, “Kelly experimented with color-fielding painting…using a grid system with warm and cool colors to create optical effects on the canvas.”

One example, is the 1951 painting Colors for a Large Wall, “combined 64 solid-colored painted squares into a grid.”

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly

Spectrum Collage

Piet MondrianSea and dock

Pier Mondrian: Making Lines

Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely

Kenneth Noland

Kenneth Noland

El Ruiseñor Template with watercolors

Frank Stella

Abstract art Rabat, 1964

Frank Stella: Protractor Series

Students at Westlawn Elementary in Falls Church, VA

Students at Westlawn Elementary in Falls Church, VA

Example

Ms. Hernandez