Jazz Guitarist on 52nd Street, Manhattan , New York

About the artwork

A nostalgic look back at jazz on 52nd street, Manhattan. Which, in its heyday in the mid-1930s and the late ‘40s,was the centre of the jazz world. Dozens of crowded basement clubs between Fifth and Seventh avenues played host to legends such as Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles Davies, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Prima, Harry Gibson…..and many more. By the late 1940s, the jazz scene began moving elsewhere around the city. By the 1960s, most of the legendary jazz clubs were gone. Today, the street is full of banks, shops, and department stores and shows little trace of its jazz history…………….! The painting is a tribute to the once epicentre of jazz. ....I am constantly looking for the emotion, expression, movement, harmony and the ''moment character'' in a painting . Achieving the fine balance between these components is the challenge….. A painting with its own unique personality.The style of painting is impressionistic, integrating expressionism , combined with realistic subject. The painterly translation suggests rather than define the subject, using just enough hard edges to bring the viewer into the painting, employing soft and lost edges in the process without killing the imagination…. it is an invitation to become a part of what the painting is all about. read more