Broadway Boogie Woogie
by Piet Mondrian, 1943
Details
- Year
- 1943
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 127 cm × 127 cm (50 × 50 in)
Dutch painter Piet Mondrian painted this Broadway Boogie Woogie in 1943, shortly after fleeing wartime Europe for New York. The painting vibrates with the energy of Manhattan's grid and the syncopated rhythms of boogie-woogie jazz. Small colored blocks pulse along yellow lines like traffic signals or musical beats.
Mondrian abandoned his earlier black lines for yellow, red, and blue. The strict geometry of De Stijl meets American dynamism. It was his last completed painting before his death in 1944. The work hangs in MoMA.
