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Jazz: Tears and Smiles / Art Series

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Size

26" x 38"

The jazz masters, we all know and love, have pushed me to question and rediscover myself artistically by using a novel painting style that aspires to mirror their purity, expressiveness and force of feelings. Their songs often born from vastly painful experiences contrast beauty and sadness through the inner power of each performer. It is that energy extended to the listener my paintings seek to highlight becoming a visual representation of the bittersweet excitement we all know and love as Jazz.

"Art is not mere decoration. It's meant to speak to your soul. When you buy a piece of art from an artist, you are buying hundreds of hours of failures and experimentation. You are buying days, weeks and months of pure joy. You aren't just buying a thing, you are buying a piece of heart, part of a soul, a small piece of someone else's life." Anonymous

© 2024 by Neli Nenkova 

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