Piet mondrian broadway boogie woogie

After the abandonment of representational forms in and the reconciliation of his spiritual concerns with his aesthetic, Mondrian had finally developed the transition of solid black lines to lines consisting of multi-colored, vibrant hues, creating an entirely new feeling. Compared to his earlier work, the canvas is divided into a much larger number of squares.

Tree II. Nevertheless, the most important factor in the origin of this painting, and of the "mutation" in his art, must have been the experience of the daily rhythm of New York itself, the pulsating movement that animates Broadway, especially at night, and, in thorough keeping with the old principles of De Stijl , creates harmony out of the opposition of contraries.

Plane 2 is the same size as plane 1 but consists solely of red and gray rather than the three primary colors. One can see the grid of the Manhattan city streets and feel the beat of the boogie woogie music of which Mondrian was so fond. In other projects. Painting by Piet Mondrian. Broadway Boogie-Woogie, by Piet Mondrian.

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Composition London. Broadway Boogie Woogie Diagram D. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Read Edit View history. The Gray Tree. 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 the Broadway boogie woogie, a type of music Mondrian loved.

Color yellow, which defines the lines is in fact the one which most interiorize within the unitary plane. The painting seems initially to have been based on lines, mainly yellow, running through it and in this respect closely related to New York City I and on some connecting bands of a different color, which brought about a change in direction and proportion.

He integrated the mood and tone of jazz into this work. New planes are born, as shown by diagram C, that differ from those observed in diagram B by presenting an inner space marked with a different color:. Piet Mondrian. In the late s he named two paintings Fox Trot A and B after the popular American dance recently introduced into Europe.

It would, however, be a mistake to see this as calm in the sense of a total absence of inner tension. Broadway Boogie Woogie, Diagram F. One example of a painting so changed is Composition London , which in its present state - that is, after the changes Mondrian made on it in New York - must be roughly contemporaneous with the Broadway Boogie-Woogie sketches.

Through a dynamic process the one and the many the spiritual and the natural merge and transform into each other. Farm Near Duivendrecht.

Composition with red, blue and yellow

Pattern Tag is correct Tag is incorrect. In the completion of Broadway Boogie-Woogie the same sort of process took place as in the final reworking of Composition London. Action History.