Riviera Paradis

'Riviera Paradis', by David Morris, paintings Digital painting on archival paper, signed numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached.  Different sizes and framing options available upon request. In this body of work, the artist wanted to explore and illustrate, in an abstract visual form, what he feels, sees, and hears when listening to jazz. Although jazz can appear to sound random and free form, it can communicate a beautiful and cohesive composition if you visualize the entire piece. Jazz is characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions in pitch and timbre. When the artist hears jazz, he sees simple lines that twist, turn, and overlap, light and dark, faded soft and hard edges, repeated patterns, random whirls, square boxes, layers, color, black and white, and texture. At the same time, he feels and hears harmony and confusion, sadness and joy, freedom and restraint, competition and isolation, movement, and silence.