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from Auction House Records.
AN EXPRESSION FROM SCHUMANN'S TRAUMERE
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Showing obvious art talent from the time he was a youngster, Ira Jean
Belmont was especially sensitive about the relationship between
painting and sound, which resulted in 'color-music"
paintings---canvases filled by him while listening to composers such as
Sibelius, Tachaikovsky and Wagner.
Of these relationships, which he called Color-Music Expressionism, it
was written: "Whenever Belmont heard the clanging of church bells, the
twittering of birds, the echoes of his own voice---multiple colors
flashed before his eyes." He became quite scientific about these
correspondences and computed rations of light rays and sound
vibrations: a ray of the color red has 477,000,000,000 vibrations per
second. He authored a book about his painting theories: Modern Dilemma in Art, 1944.
Belmont's studio was primarily in New York City. He studied there and also in Europe in Konigsberg and Paris.
Exhibition venues included the Renaissance Gallery in Paris, 1932;
Wildensteing Gallery in New York City, 1933; Salons of America and
Society of Independent Artists in New York; and Malvern Festival in
England, 1947.
Sources include:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792142,00.html
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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