Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie

1942-43

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Overview

Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie

Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Size: 127 x 127 cm

Quote from the text at the website of the Museum of Modern Art on the painting Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie:

“In this painting, his penultimate, Mondrian replaced the black grid that had long governed his canvases with predominantly yellow lines that intersect at points marked by squares of blue and red. These atomized bands of stuttering chromatic pulses, interrupted by light gray, create paths across the canvas suggesting the city’s grid, the movement of traffic, and blinking electric lights, as well as the rhythms of jazz.”

Pigment Analysis of the painting Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie

Pigment Analysis

This pigment analysis is based on the work of the scientists at the Delft University of Technology and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1).

 

Piet-Mondrian-Broadway-Boogie-Woogie

Pigments

Ground: Lead white
Yellow: Cadmium yellow and zinc white, barium sulfate and lithopone
Red: Cadmium red and an unidentified organic red
Blue: Artificial ultramarine and gypsum
White: Titanium dioxide white, zinc white, barium sulfate, and lithopone
Gray: White pigments and bone black

 

References

(1) Joris Dick, Ana Martins and Chris Mcglinchey, Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie: non-invasive analysis using macro-X-ray fluorescence mapping (MA-XRF) and multivariate curve resolution alternating least square (MCR-ALS), Heritage Science, 4; 22, December 2016

Videos

Video: 'This Mondrian painting is actually a jazz score' by Jason Moran | MoMA BBC

Video: 'Deconstructing Mondrian: The Story Behind an Iconic Design' by Wall Street Journal

Video: 'Piet Mondrian's Artistic Evolution' by The Canvas

Video: 'Mondrian in New York (1980)' by Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid

Video: 'Piet Mondrian: A collection of 131 works (HD)' by LearnFromMasters

Publications and Websites

Publications

(1) Joris Dick, Ana Martins and Chris Mcglinchey, Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie: non-invasive analysis using macro-X-ray fluorescence mapping (MA-XRF) and multivariate curve resolution alternating least square (MCR-ALS), Heritage Science, 4; 22, December 2016