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Jay RosenblumPolarity #31981
1981
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Jay Rosenblum
Polarity #3, 1981
Acrylic on paper
6 × 9 1/2 inches
Signed and titled in graphite pencil on the front
Unframed
This gem of a work is an acrylic painting on paper by renowned Abstract Color Field painter Jay Rosenblum (1933–1989), featuring his trademark bold and dramatic color stripes done with a paint roller.
Jay Rosenblum, a gifted musician and talented painter, coined the term “Free Association Color Development” to describe his vibrant and expressive color block paintings. Based on his love of Classical music, he felt that a painting should come together similar to a sonata, with various notes falling into a synchronistic compilation to create a sensory experience as a whole. He worked with this expressive “visual stripe motif” for over thirty years.
Born and raised in the Bronx, Rosenblum’s life was on a clear trajectory toward the arts from the very beginning. He attended the High School of Music and Art, then went on to receive his Bachelor’s from Bard College, finally studying at Cranbrook Academy of Fine Arts. His creative talents were not limited to 2 or 3D work, he was also a gifted violinist, and played with the Seventh Army Symphony in the 1950s. In addition to making work, he also had an extensive teaching career, molding young minds at the Visual School of Arts, the Cleveland Art Institute, and Hunter College.
Rosenblum was awarded the Carlos Lopez Memorial Prize in Painting from the Detroit Institute of Art in 1955, as well as the Painter of Year Award from Larry Aldrich in 1970. He was also selected to design and execute two major murals in New York City.
- Creator:Jay Rosenblum (1933, American)
- Creation Year:1981
- Dimensions:Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Width: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745210954662
Jay Rosenblum
Jay Rosenblum experimented with different versions of the "Visual Stripe motif" for more than thirty years. In the 1960's he developed a "hard-edge" style with "flat curtain forms" which had a clearly defined vertical emphasis. These colors as in our example move up and down the picture plane. Space is defined by shifts in color passages. As the artist explained in his own words: "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." Rosenblum was an ardent violinist who played for the Seventh Army Symphony in West Germany and who was also an art teacher at the School of Visual Arts. In his art Rosenblum sought to associate his great love for chamber music sonatas with his freely evolving vertical stripes of color. Rosenblum once stated: "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." In much the same way that singular notes strung together create music, individual stripes of color together can be transformed into a complete art form. He thus viewed these blocks of color almost as separate notes in a piece of music that that when brought together would be transformed into a cohesive unit, resonating with a playfulness that added interest and energy to the picture. With colors Rosenblum attempted to select ones that when juxtaposed against or near one another would become "an exciting visual discovery". He would refer to such works as "free association color development". Rosenblum executed a number of these "hard-edge" paintings which included groupings of color clusters in both vertical and diagonal motifs. Jay Rosenblum was born in New York City in 1933. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1951-53, Harvard University in the summer of 1953 and Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1953-1955. He received a M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. His paintings have appeared in numerous selected solo and group exhibitions in the USA and Italy. 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. He lived and worked in Manhattan for most of his life and sadly died in a tragic bicycle accident in 1989.
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