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Broardway Boogie-Woogie Homage to the Cinema Published by Faine Contemporary Art 2016
I used the title of a painting by Piet Mondrian as a starting point for this print, as his love of the dance and his title referencing Broadway and Boogie-Woogie seemed to provide a link similar to that of the intrinsic relationship of the musical and the cinema. The musical movie is essentially an all American creation, for although songs and dances were often fundamental to theatrical prductions ranging from mummers plays to vaudeville and burlesque, it was the American cinema that distilled these elements into an art form. Its origins emerged with advent of the talkies e.g Jolson's 1927 feature length film The Jazz Singer and the Busby Bacley spectaculars, notably Gold Diggers1935 and the Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland movie Strike Up The Band, amongst the early examples of the genre. The stills on this print are from a selction of successful musicals, overprinted with a diamond dusted A to Z text of the titles fom Annie Get Your Gun to Zip Goes A Million. |
Canvases from 2016
