Broadway Boogie Woogie

{{short description|Painting by Piet Mondrian}}

{{Infobox artwork

| image_file = Piet Mondrian, 1942 - Broadway Boogie Woogie.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| title = Broadway Boogie Woogie

| artist = Piet Mondrian

| year = 1942–43

| catalogue = [https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78682 78682]

| accession = 73.1943

| medium = Oil on canvas

| height_metric = 127

| width_metric = 127

| height_imperial = 50

| width_imperial = 50

| metric_unit = cm

| imperial_unit = in

| city = New York

| museum = Museum of Modern Art

}}

Broadway Boogie Woogie is a painting by Piet Mondrian completed in 1943, after he had moved to New York in 1940. Compared to his earlier work, the canvas is divided into many more squares. Although he spent most of his career creating abstract work, this painting is inspired by clear real-world examples: the city grid of Manhattan, and boogie-woogie, an African-American blues style of music Mondrian loved.{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78682|title=Piet Mondrian. Broadway Boogie Woogie. 1942-43 - MoMA|publisher=}} The painting was bought by the Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins for $800 at the Valentine Gallery in New York City, after Martins and Mondrian both exhibited there in 1943.{{cite news |last= Smith |first=Roberta |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/10/arts/art-in-review-437697.html |title=Art in Review |work=The New York Times |accessdate=23 September 2014 |date=10 April 1998}} Martins later donated the painting to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Analysis

When Piet Mondrian arrived in New York, he became fond of the neat, rigid architecture. He integrated the mood and tone of jazz into this work. Mondrian called it the “destruction of natural appearance; and construction through continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.”{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Piet Mondrian|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78682|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150804221511/http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78682 |archive-date=2015-08-04 |access-date=|website=Moma}}

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