Victory Boogie Woogie and Science
This famous painting by Piet Mondriaan has been analysed the past 2 years with X-ray, infrared and microscope. Without touching the painting they unraffeld the history of it’s origins. Mondriaan changed the painting frequently even short before he died in February 1944, he used tape and paint to adapt the picture. Even the lines from which he started the painting have been changed frequently. Some colors were changed 2 to 7 times.
They recently also discovered a short video fragment with Piet Mondriaan on it.
I am a great fan of this painter, the Victory Boogie Woogie is called the Nachtwacht of the 20th century. I like his earlier work even more.
Which do you like the most, the earlier or later work by Piet Mondriaan?
August 31, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
I definately like Mondriaan’s earlier work better. Honestly, I do not ‘get’ much of the modern art I see. When I went to the Tate Modern in London I saw only two exhibits that captured my imagination, the rest I looked and and inside I was thinking…”Huh?”. That’s just me though. I can appreciate that others like it and maybe even understand it.
August 31, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
After Picasso, Willem de Koning and Dali I called it quits with modern art.
August 31, 2008 @ 8:25 pm
ha, ha!
September 8, 2008 @ 11:53 am
The earlier work, definitely. Victory Boogie Woogie is a nice motif for tiling the bathroom floor, no more, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t know where artists have been going this last century or so; it seems they’ve reinvented art as a branch of philosophy. But they sure lost me along the way…
December 7, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
i have always thought that his earliest modern pieces represent the fields and rivers of his native Holland and are extensions and simplifications of his earlier work and they evolve from there. i also feel that victory boogie woogie was meant to represent the joyous streets of new york upon the triumphant return of ww2 vets!
December 7, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
That’s another creative interpretation of these works. That makes it so interesting, you can have many interpretations