Framed: 33 x 27 1/4 inches
artist
James Hiroshi Suzuki first studied in Japan with Yoshio Markino and, after arriving in the United States in the 1950s, studied at the Portland School of Fine Arts in Maine and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. He taught at University of California, Berkeley in 1962, California College of Arts and Crafts from 1964-1965, and at California State University in Sacramento since 1999.
Description
Green, Blue, Red, 1960 is a lovely work on paper by this artist and very indicative of his work in the early 1960’s. His brushwork took on an energy that belied his interest in action painting. In fact, the driving visual aspect of his compositions at this time is a stroke that seemed loaded with paint and moving in a swirling fashion. This energy is highly appealing. Its possible that this artist too, drew upon Asian love of strokes and gestures and mad it a point that his strokes would have a special lyricism to them. These compositions, wittingly or not, are often evocative of nature especially as he had a propensity to use blues and greens and then punctuate with a red. Even though these works seem easy to do, a composition such as this one are unique and hard to find as successfully done.