Happy 4th of July!

From my News Reel Series: “Un-Biased Reporting of One Same Event”. Original Mixed Acrylic on 30″h x 40″w x 1.5″ Premium Quality Stretched Canvas.

“Balboa Park San Diego Zoo” for the Panamanian Centennial Celebration, 2015.

With all the move and World Art Games [WAG ] admin activities, I finally got to painting this weekend. It’s been 3 months and the pent up energy came to life on the canvas easily and quickly. This diptych is on two 36″ x 60″ canvas panels.

I wanted to create a work worthy of tribute to the 2015 Balboa Park Centennial. The beauty of this piece is in its flexibility to form 16 similar but different paintings: four versions of the paintings are 3 ft high x 10 ft long; four diptychs are 10 ft high x 3′ wide; fours pairs are 6 ft high x 5 ft wide, and; four  are 5 ft high x 6 ft long. Watch for our forthcoming video on how that works so wonderfully to add value for the beholder.

I am thrilled with the experiment and the results. And, I just loved the freedom of creating it in my new indoor/ outdoor studio! Having fun out of Las Vegas is an understatement.

I want to introduce you to my “Film Strip Series” a collection of paintings completed and planned that entice as one observes the sequences from left to right or right to left in each strip. Today’s feature I call “MUSICAL ART PIECES – LEAD SHEET”.  Have fun with this as you find discoveries that seem to evolve. And of course, the painting may be displayed in any one of four positions, vertically and horizontally. I would appreciate your thoughts and feed back as to this progression of my art style.

Happy Spring – Time for “Rejuvenation”

No. 2315. “Rejuvenation” is the latest piece from John R Kazanjian Art’s Film Strip Series. Original mixed acrylics on 60″h x 36″ w x 1.5″ Blick Premier Quality Stretched Canvas.

Music: “Jazz Sunday” by Jack Schell – The SoundWeaver
Still Photography: Greg Preston | Sampsel Preston Photography Las Vegas, NV

“First Earth Day 1970” is early painting in tribute to the First Earth Day, an event sponsored by Harvard University and the Graduate School of Design.  It was quite an enlightening time. We were charged with bringing environmental awareness to the forefront, while incorporating sustainable green concepts in our designs on the land, both regionally and site specific. My neighbor/professor Frederick T Smith, then President of the National Academy of Sciences, emceed the event, where we heard notables Nobel scientist George Wald, Paul R Erlich, a Stanford University biologist and author of the best-selling book The Population Bomb, and Ian McHarg, University of Pennsylvania landscape architect and a renowned writer on regional planning.

Earth Day is an annual event, now celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.

No. 2248. “First Earth Day 1970” Original Mixed Acrylic on 30″h x 40″w Stretched Canvas.

It is important to me that my patrons find flexibility and value in the art that I produce. I compose each canvas considering all four orientation sides so there is not just one display positioning for each piece. This enhances the patron’s ability to hang the art horizontally or vertically as they select alternate locations for display. Feel free to rotate my work over the years for renewed pleasure. The diptychs and triptychs can be pieced together either vertically or horizontally and then rotated as well. Check out the video of  of my dyptich “Crystal Bay”.  Video and music by Jack Schell – The Soundweaver.

Featured: “Cafe Roma, Italia.

Time to chill’ax with your favorite beverage at Cafe Roma.
No. 2255. “Cafe Roma, Italia” Original Mixed Acrylic on 30″h x 30″w x 1.5″  Premium Quality Stretched Canvas

Featured: “My Higher Self” from the Healing Exploration Series – Remembrances of Past Times.

Enjoy! Comments are welcome and appreciated.

40″x60″x1.5″ Acrylic on stretched canvas.

FACEBOOK ART CHALLENGE – DAY FIVE

I was nominated by my friend Ljiljana Stevanovic to the Facebook Art Challenge. I have accepted the challenge and will post 3 of my works each day for 5 days. And, I will nominate another wonderful artist each day. This is my Day Five and I am nominating a college fraternity brother and exquisite photojournalist whose body of work I admire, Allan Tannenbaum and Allan Tannenbaum Photography, to this world wide challenge. Represent your art Allan!

Today from my “Empowerment Series”  I present three paintings “Empowerment in Teal Blue”, “Empowerment in Green” and “Empowerment in Orange”.