Jay Rosenblum Purple's Choice 42" X 26" Acrylic Painting Visual Stripe Motif Hard-Edge Flat Curtain Forms 1970

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Jay Rosenblum was a native of the Bronx and a graduate of the High School of Music and Art, Bard … Read more Jay Rosenblum was a native of the Bronx and a graduate of the High School of Music and Art, Bard College and the Cranbrook Academy of Fine Arts in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

As an abstract artist Jay Rosenblum experimented with versions of the "Visual Stripe motif" for over thirty years. When brought together in the vertical composition the colors in “Purple’s Choice” move up and down the picture plane and are transformed into a cohesive unit. Space is defined by shifts in color passages. Mr. Rosenblum states "the vertical forms in my work serve as the vehicle for color and also become a dramatic means of achieving movement and deep space. This becomes possible through a great variation in the stripe thickness and the sudden emergence or disappearance of a particular band of color when it overlaps another."

He was an ardent violinist who played for the Seventh Army Symphony in West Germany. In his art Jay Rosenblum sought to associate his great love for chamber music sonatas with his freely evolving vertical stripes of color. “When these elements engage themselves in the painting, there is a great visual excitement for me. A kinship with music, in a polyphonic sense, is very strong in that simultaneously one hears lines of "overlapping" music. In some mysterious way the composer can achieve this and it is equally mysterious and effective in painting when it happens."

Jay Rosenblum taught at Hunter College, the School of Visual Arts in NY, and the Cleveland Art Institute. His paintings have appeared in numerous selected solo and group exhibitions in the USA and Italy. Mr. Rosenblum was awarded the Carlos Lopez Memorial Prize in painting from the Detroit Institute of Art in Detroit, Michigan in 1955 and the Painter of the Year Award from Larry Aldrich, Ridgefield, CT in 1970.

The painting is fully signed on the back "Purple's Choice 26" x 42" Jay Rosenblum" with an arrow showing the top of the painting. See less