His painting Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942–43) at The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan was highly influential in the school of abstract geometric painting. The piece is made up of a number of shimmering squares of bright color that leap from the canvas, then appear to shimmer, drawing the viewer into those neon lights. In this painting and the unfinished Victory Boogie Woogie (1942–44), Mondrian replaced former solid lines with lines created from small adjoining rectangles of color, created in part by using small pieces of paper tape in various colors. Larger unbounded rectangles of color punctuate the design, some with smaller concentric rectangles inside them. While Mondrian's works of the 1920s and 1930s tend to have an almost scientific austerity about them, these are bright, lively paintings, reflecting the upbeat music that inspired them and the city in which they were made.
In 2008 the Dutch television program Andere Tijden found the only known movie footage with Mondrian.[13] The discovery of the film footage was announced at the end of a two-year research program on the Victory Boogie Woogie. The research found that the painting was in very good condition and that Mondrian painted the composition in one session. It also was found that the composition was changed radically by Mondrian shortly before his death by using small pieces of colored tape.
Piet Mondrian (born March 7, 1872) was a Dutch painter who played a pioneering role in bringing art forms, such as 'Neo-Plasticism' and 'Cubism,' into limelight. His experimentation with geometric figures and 'Abstract' drawing has always made his paintings extraordinary and ingenious in style. Broadway Boogie Woogie, painted in 1943, is one such Piet's work endorsing his mastery.
Piet Mondrian had adopted 'Neo-Plasticism' or also called 'The Style' (Dutch: De Stijl), where a harmony was achieved among the geometric shapes an artist laid down on a canvas. In this form of painting, Mondrian always tried to stick to the bare minimum to portray his viewpoint with the means of only few primary colors, such as red, blue, yellow, black and white. He would draw only straight vertical brushstrokes and focused on the infinite spaces lying between two parallel lines. Among the many masterpieces that Mondrian created, his final completed painting titled Broadway Boogie Woogie fetched him much adulation and fame, landing him at the pinnacle of success.
