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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30 W x 24 H x 1 D in
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The blues singer Lizzie Miles, whom I saw perform at the Mardi Gras Lounge in New Orleans in 1953 and at the Monterrey Jazz festival in 1958, is the inspiration for this painting. She sang “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”, in English, followed by a verse in Cajun French, and wound it up in English. I did not paint a portrait of her or of her accompanist Alton Purnell , but instead I painted generalized musicians meant to represent all the less well-known figures in the business. For the title of my painting I also changed her phrase, meaning “take my advice “, to a more understandable Parisian French. This painting is an example of my current research into the selective suppression of anecdote and detail in my imagery, saving modeling and particulars for the important parts, namely faces and hands. The rest of the picture is composed mostly of flat decorative patches of color, the idea being to stress the human values of the composition.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:30 W x 24 H x 1 D in
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A graduate of The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, William Buffett has sold his work all over the world. He is known for his tropical townscapes, featuring palm trees and glimpses of the ocean. As a native of Southern California, he represents these landscapes in a delicate and sensual way with subtle colors and intuitive compositions. After formal training in the arts, he moved to New Orleans to see the jazz players and hear their music. The painting of jazz musicians is his true passion and he seems to capture the sound of the music in his dynamic paintings. A world traveler, he has visited Europe, Mexico and the Far East studying the great art collections. He enjoys success as a portrait painter, designer and printer of limited edition serigraphs and as a widely distributed poster artist, in addition to exhibiting and selling his original paintings. Today his work is in the collections of universities, corporations, and private individuals in America, Europe, Australia and Japan, as well as many islands in the Caribbean and Pacific. He presently lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee and is married to the well known abstract artist and interior designer Brenda Buffett.
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