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\n\tThe Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian\u2019s years in New York\u2014in particular, the influence of the city\u2019s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian\u2019s paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death there in 1944.<\/p>\n
\n\tA pioneer of 20th-century abstraction, Mondrian began as a figurative painter before co-founding the De Stijl art movement\u2014an international collective dedicated to non-representational art\u2014in 1917. After moving to Paris in 1919, he continued to develop his theories on abstract art, eventually settling on the format for which he is best known: rectangular planes of primary colors divided by a grid of strong black lines.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn 1938, Mondrian fled Europe, first moving to London and then, in 1940, to New York. Long a lover of jazz, he became obsessed with the genre upon his arrival there, as well as with boogie-woogie, a style of blues undergoing a resurgence in the 1940s.<\/p>\n
\n\tNew York, with its bustling life and vibrant music scene, precipitated a new phase in Mondrian\u2019s work\u2014dispensing with the black grid, he began creating paintings made up of smaller blocks of primary colors arranged in patterns resembling syncopated street maps. Two such works,\u00a0Broadway Boogie Woogie<\/em>\u00a0(1942\u201343) in MoMA\u2019s collection, and\u00a0Victory Boogie Woogie<\/em>\u00a0(1942\u201344), usually on view at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, will anchor the exhibition, which in addition to tracing Mondrian\u2019s final years, will present a parallel history of boogie-woogie from its late 19th-century roots in the American South to its migration north following World War I.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThese two fascinating journeys\u2014Mondrian\u2019s and boogie-woogie\u2019s\u2014are stories of migration, diaspora, encounter, and reimagination, and both are critical to our understanding of modernism in America,\u201d said MoMA\u2019s director of research programs, Leah Dickerman, a co-curator of the show. \u201cWe are delighted to partner with the Kunstmuseum Den Haag on reuniting two of Mondrian\u2019s most compelling and beloved works here in the city that inspired them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMondrian Boogie Woogie,\u201d will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from March 21 through July 31, 2027<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/first-survey-of-piet-mondrian-s-new-york-paintings-moma-1234788642\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/73_1943_CCCR-Press_Piet-Mondrian_Broadway-Boogie-Woogie.jpg?w=1024″] The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian\u2019s years in New York\u2014in particular, the influence of the city\u2019s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian\u2019s paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1981446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}