Sock Affairs Boogie-Woogie Socks

Boogie-Woogie Socks

Artist: Piet Mondrian

Created: 1942-43

Dimensions (cm): 127 x 127

Format: Oil paint

Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Broadway, Boogie-Woogie is the last finished painting from Mondrian, who came to New York in 1940 to escape WWII in Europe and completely fell in love with the city and with boogie-woogie music.
Although he spent most of his career creating abstract work, this painting is inspired by clear real-world examples: the city grid of Manhattan with its intersections and yellow cabs. The squared lines seem to bounce against each other and these tiny, blinking blocks of color create a vital and pulsing rhythm and an optical vibration that jumps from intersection to intersection like traffic on the streets.
For Mondrian, this represents the masterpiece of his own doctrine – simplifying and abstracting every element to its core, creating a universal language through primary elements of shape and color. With Broadway, Boogie-Woogie, he was able to achieve his goal as the synergy of energy, and Broadway’s architecture is distilled into a completely abstract manifestation of a feeling.
The essential elements of Neoplasticism are retained, but also expanded upon which is why we kept our creation as truthful as possible.

• 80% Combed Cotton, 17% Polyamide, 3% Elastane.
• We use seamless knitting to create a sock with no stitches.
• Wash inside out (40ºC/100ºF max). Do not tumble dry, iron, bleach or dry clean.

About Sock Affairs

Sock affairs has been five years in the making. In 2018, two guys left their cushy corporate jobs to follow a big idea: make fun socks for grown ups.

Three brands and 1 million socks later, we’ve developed a team of knitting experts, each assigned with the creative vision of a collection, according to their hobbies and passions.

Collectively, we focus on making high-quality socks that look good and feel even better. In this journey, we’ve created a community of tens of thousands that share our passion. People who know that when you put on a great pair of socks, it can make your whole day better.