Piece description from the artist
This painting (like the others in this series) draws its inspiration from the writings of sassily Kandinsky and Robert Motherwell in which the artists analogize the act of painting to composing music. In my work I think of line like melody, color relations to harmonies or chords. I sketch out the lines of the composition on a small pad, (about 3" x 4") transfer the drawing to a 3 foot x 4 foot canvas, (enlarging it to scale), and then paint it mixing the color separately for eachnshape. All of this is done intuitively without reference to any thing except my own intuition.
Jim Hamilton was born in Buffalo, NY in 1931 and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and The Philadelphia University of Art and studied law at Temple University. He has a Certificate of Painting , a Bachelor's Degree in Art and a Juris Doctor degree. He has a large body of work consisting of woodcut prints, gouache and oil paintings. His work includes figurative and abstract forms. He work shows influences of Lionel Feininger, Josef Albers, Piet Mondrian, and other 19th and 20th century painters. He exhibits nationally and internationally and is represented in several museums and collections.
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