As much as I am enjoying Meet the Masters , I found today’s unit on Mondrian to be somewhat lacking. It explains very nicely about his use of colour and balance, and I guess they can’t say EVERYTHING, but it only gives a brief mention of the fact that his style changed from the beginning to the end of his career. There were no samples shown of his early art, so I started poking around to find out what it looked like… and was blown away by how much his style changed. This is a theme we explored a little with Mary Cassatt, whose paintings started out in the stiff, formal portrait style that was popular when she studied art, and began to take on a more natural, contemporary, almost photographic style. So I thought it would be helpful for the kids to see how Mondrian’s work ALSO changed, in a nice, light slideshow form. You can also download the slideshow as a PowerPoint Presentation here , or a printable / on-screen PDF from my General Studies printables page here (scroll dow