A Closer Look: Episode 18 - Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie
How does an artist's work change when they move cities, move countries, move cultures? And how do different cultural art forms impact on one another: architecture on the work of sculptors, for example, or music on a painter like Piet Mondrian?
In this episode of A Closer Look, Dr Nick Gordon introduces Mondrian's painting, Broadway Boogie Woogie, painted in 1942-43. This was not long after Mondrian arrived in New York City, one of many Old World artists escaping the turmoil of World War II. Its classical underpinning, animated by the liveliness and urbanity in the gridlike streets of Manhattan, is one of the celebrated works of MoMA today.
Learn more: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78682.
NICK GORDON
Nick Gordon is a cultural historian with a University Medal and PhD from the University of Sydney, and significant expertise designing modern and contemporary art-focused tours to Western Europe, Asia and Australasia. He is also a practising artist.
Kathleen Olive
Kathleen is one of Australia’s best-known cultural tour leaders, with over fifteen years’ experience leading tours to Western Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan.