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| | Piet Mondrian, Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Like Stuart Davis, Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944) translated the colorful, rhythmic irregularities of swing era jazz into paint and used them to represent the modern American city. |
 | | As art historian Donna Cassidy writes, in Broadway Boogie-Woogie, jazz manifests itself in "irregular rhythms, flickering optical effects, and [a] grid plan," which recreate the experience of a New York City street. |
 | | The common use by artists of an abstracted jazz-inspired style to represent the quintessentially American city, New York, illustrates the notion of jazz and urban American life as a "perfect fit." As Gershwin suggests, jazz grew out of something "stored up in America"--something inherently American. |
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