Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie
1942-43Paintings sorted by Historical period | Painter | Subject matter | Pigments used
Overview
Medium: Oil
Support: Canvas
Size: 127 x 127 cm
Art period: Neo-Plasticism
Museum of Modern Art New York
Painting 73.1943
Quote from the text on the website of the Museum of Modern Art:
“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
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).
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
Pigments Used in This Painting
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