Rhythm of Black Lines
by Piet Mondrian :
Our word description of our abstract drawing:
Size : The picture is 9 and a half inches down and 7 inches across.
Picture: There are 5 vertical lines going down the page. The first line
is three fourths of an inch from the right and is one fourth of an inch
thick. The second line is three inches from the right and is one fourth
of an inch thick. The third line is three and three fourths of an inch from
the right and is one fourth of an inch thick. The fourth line is four and
three fourths of an inch from the right and one fourth of an inch thick.
The fifth line is one and three fourths of an inch from the left and is
half a centimeter thick.
There are four horizontal lines going across the page. The first line is
two and one fourth of an inch from the bottom and is one fourth of an inch
thick. The second line is four and one fourth of an inch from the bottom
and is one fourth of an inch thick. The third is three and a half inches
from the top and is one fourth of an inch thick. The last line is one and
three fourths of an inch from the top and is one fourth of an inch thick.
There is a small horizontal line from the right. It hits the first vertical
line from the right. It is five eighths of an inch from the bottom and is
one fourth of an inch thick. The lines are all black.
There is blue in the upper left corner. The color stretches to the third
horizontal line and the fourth vertical line.
Our Hoover partners' recreation of our abstract, using
only our word description:
