Cubism & Early Abstraction · 1942
New York City
New York City (1942) by Piet Mondrian. Its palette is led by cool white (#e3e5ef, 46%) and pale amber (#e1b237, 28%), with accents of vivid red and very dark 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
- #e3e5ef MG 204 cool white 46.4% of canvas
- #e1b237 MG 035 pale amber 28.1% of canvas
- #cfcec0 MG 171 bone 12.0% of canvas
- #e52b14 MG 013 vivid red 7.9% of canvas
- #0e2752 MG 108 very dark blue 5.5% of canvas
Color families
White 49%, Yellow 28%, Brown 8%, Red 7%, Blue 5%
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Composition
51% of the visual weight is in the left half, 50% in the upper half. Symmetry 0.77 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 12% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 29% 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
- Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942
- Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942