Broadway Boogie Woogie - Piet Mondrian?

Question

Ant symbolism in this piece? Maybe some interesting background information?

http://www.megadeal.ca/Art/Mondrian-Broadway-boogie-woogie.jpg

Answer 1

Mondrian's artistic carreer was a search for purity and truth ; a reality in art that could not be seen. He was close to minimalism when his house in London was bombed by the Germans in 1938 . He moved to New York in 1940 and there he wrote, "In order to prevent the surfaces of paintings from presenting themselves as rectangles, I have reduced the colours , and strengthened the lines of motion by putting one across the other. The surfaces were cut and made to disappear."

But at that point he achieved a strange rhythmical effect , caused by the the pulsating metropolis of New York. In BROADWAY BOOGIE-WOOGIE he changed his light lattices into flourescent running stripes and partitioned his small zones. This was the beginning of hard-edge painting of the 50's and 60's.