Remember the famous video game #PacMan – very popular in the 80s and 90s – an animated #yellow sphere had the aim of ingesting all the dots in the labyrinth but avoiding contact with four ghosts 👻

Our parallel with this work by Piet #Mondrian “Broadway Boogie-Woogie” is not only because of #bright tones, hatches, colored areas and that yellow but, deeper, because both at first #reading appear simple and trivial while instead, they hide a certain complexity

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‣ The #name is just what #inspired the author: the Boogie-Woogie was a rather lively dance, the #rhythm is here represented by the sequence of squares without interludes of black lines, without an outline, therefore consequential. While #Broadway is a city that expresses as much vitality through its music and its road networks, on which yellow taxis #speed
‣ This series of #works mark Mondrian’s definitive transition to #abstractionism and are characterized by greater liveliness than the previous more “representative” and austere #art

⇒ Date: 1942 – 1943

⇒ Material: Oil on Canvas

⇒ Dimensions: 127×127 cm

⇒ Site: MOMA, NY