PIET MONDRIAN
“Broadway boogie-woogie”, 1942-43
oil on canvas, 50- 50 cm. - New York, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (www.moma.org)
“Mondrian has left his white paradise to enter into the real world” Robert Motherwell wrote talking about this painting, expressing that the Dutch artist had finally incorporated the emotion to his work.
In effect, although the Mondrian's work are far from being what we would denominate a conventionally “emotional” painting, it's true that his arrival to New York in 1939 produced in him a series of emotions that would be captured in his later works. Broadway boogie-woogie is, in addition to the culmination of the de Stijl painting, a tribute to jazz music and the American culture, created by multiple lines made with multiple rectangles of pure colour.
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