Life LearNING

Painter: Hami
Series: Hybrid Cryptic (1998-200) Hybrid Cryptic Revision (2005)

Life LearNING, commissioned by Andrew Cooper (ACe) in 2005 explores the idea of a life of ear learning. Listen and learn. 

Where as in the Hybrid Cryptic series each painting features two disciplines.
In the Hybrid Cryptic Review each painting features two ideas.

At the center front of the painting 'Life Learning' sits the pianist Bill Evans.  Many other musicians are in the painting; Beethoven, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian and others. All the musicians listed above created wonderful music and contributed stylistic elements into the musical vocabulary we know today.
Musicans' works are what musicians leave behind after they are gone and thus musicians can be thought of as exemplar models who live a disciplined 'life of lEARning' - music.

I nearly finished the painting's architecture and form however detailing wasn't started.

written by
Hamish Maynard Stokes