Atoms and Elements

Piet Mondrian: Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow (1930)

Piet Mondrian: Red Tree (1908)

Piet Mondrian: Blue Tree (1909)

Piet Mondrian: Gray Tree (1911)

Piet Mondrian: Horizontal Tree (1911)

Piet Mondrian: Apple Tree (1912)

Mondrian, Piet: Composition No. II; Composition in Line and Color (1913)

Piet Mondrian: Pier en oceaan (1914)

Piet Mondrian: Compostion No. 6 (1914)

Piet Mondrian: Composition (1916)

Piet Mondrian: composition with color planes and gray lines 1 (1918)

Piet Mondrian: Tableau No. I or Picture No. 1 (1921/1925)

Piet Mondrian: Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black (1924)

Piet Mondrian: Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow (1930)

So what is an atom?

An atom is the smallest unit of any chemical element. They are the building blocks that make up each chemical element.

There are 103 types of atoms, and because each chemical element is made up of only one kind of atom there are 103 chemical elements.