To Mondrian

To Mondrian by artists Ana Uribe and Charles Barbin was located in the Norris Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Uribe wanted to express multicultural and Puerto Rican elements in an interesting way on the wall. She based the mural’s design around the abstract blocky-lined art of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter and pioneer of abstract art. Mondrian’s work uses the building blocks of all art: color and space. Uribe used Mondrian’s style as a skeleton for references to Tajino culture and the other cultures in the neighborhood. The mural design was shown door to door in the neighborhood and overwhelmingly approved. To add, Big Picture and McKinley school students researched prints and Tajino culture to create the strips of block prints on parachute cloth that were added inside the black lines that divide the picture. It lights up the neighborhood.

Location Note: Mural no longer on view at this location (lost to construction/demolition in 2016).