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Broadway Boogie Woogie

Piet Mondrian · 1943 · MoMA, New York
Broadway Boogie Woogie

The artist

Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter famous for using straight lines and simple bright colors.

What you see

A grid of little yellow squares like city lights, dotted with red and blue, buzzing across a white background.

The story

Mondrian painted it in 1942 in New York, inspired by the city's busy streets and a lively music called boogie-woogie.

The style

Instead of solid black lines like his earlier work, he made the lines out of tiny colored blocks that seem to blink.

Look closer

Follow the yellow lines and they feel like cars and taxis zipping along the streets of a bright, busy city map.

Where to see it

You can see it at the Museum of Modern Art, known as MoMA, in New York City in the United States.

Fun fact

Mondrian loved to dance, and you can almost feel the rhythm of the music jumping through this cheerful painting.