Shape + Color

Broadway Boogie-    
     Woogie


Piet Mondrian
Dutch 1942-1943
Museum of Modern Art
Oil painting
 4' 2" x 4' 2" x 0' 0"                                                             

            Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian, was a Dutch painter. He was born March 7, 1872 in Amersfoort and died February 1, 1944 in New York City.  He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg.

             Broadway Boogie-Woogie is a painting by Piet Mondrian completed in 1943, shortly after he moved to New York in 1940. Compared to his earlier work, the canvas is divided into a much larger number of squares. This is my favorite piece of Mondrian's. The streets, buildings, and lights of the city seem to be mimicked here through color and shape. It seems playful and exciting. Before this painting was created Mondrian had left his home where the war was very prominent, and full of sorrow, and created a new life for himself in a place full of life and happiness. This painting shows the joy of this life change very well.

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=78682