Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1942
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942) by Piet Mondrian. Its palette is led by white (#f0f1ec, 62%) and pale golden yellow (#e6ce2e, 24%), with accents of dark indigo blue and indigo blue. Overall the canvas is light, vivid and warm.
Color note
From about 1920 Mondrian limited himself to red, yellow and blue, plus white, black and grey, set in a grid of straight lines. In New York his color broke loose again into the small colored blocks of Broadway Boogie Woogie.
Palette
- #f0f1ec MG 205 white 62.0% of canvas
- #e6ce2e MG 040 pale golden yellow 23.6% of canvas
- #a6382c MG 019 scarlet red 8.3% of canvas
- #36448e MG 112 dark indigo blue 3.1% of canvas
- #4869bd MG 111 indigo blue 3.0% of canvas
Color families
White 62%, Yellow 23%, Red 7%, Blue 6%, Brown 2%
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Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the right half, 50% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.22 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 15% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 31% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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More by Piet Mondrian
- The Red Tree, 1909
- Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930
- New York City, 1942
- Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942