Coming Soon: Dali Kong

A Canadian artist was gazing at a famous Mondrian painting some years back, when something told him that he’d seen a similar layout before, in his old 1980s-era Atari video game system. “Pac-Mondrian is the meeting ground in arcade-game format between Toru Iwantani’s classic 1980s Atari game Pac-Man and Piet Mondrian’s oil painting, Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43), the motionless but vibrant jangle of red, yellow and blue rectangles representing the expatriate Dutch painter’s reaction to the hectic, well-travelled grid of New York in the early 1940s.” The unauthorized mish-mash has become a legitimate Internet art smash, with tens of thousands of visitors playing the game and admiring the art.