LANTZ ART

CHRISTOPHER PAUL LANTZ

I live off the grid in north central New Mexico - USA. I built my own house and studio 40 years ago in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I have painted, wrote, painted, read and lived the life I wanted. Now I'm old. A few years ago I lost one eye, it took me quite some time to learn where the paint brush was on the paper. You are viewing my life in the paintings. I hope you come to understand me.
Christopher Lantz

BIO
In 1936, Christopher Lantz was born in Santa Fe's La Fonda Hotel where his parents were both artists in resident artist's. As a child, he grew up in such varied environs as Santa Fe, Guadalajara Mexico, and the streets on New York City. During his unusual childhood, he came in contact with many artists, including the poet Witter Bynner, Frida Kahlo, and later even made a habit of stopping in for coffee in Jackson Pollock's studio, where he would watch Pollock drip paint on his canvases for hours on end.

As a young man, Christopher was more interested in music. He composed his first symphony at the age of 16, which was later performed for Igor Stravinsky when Christopher was 19 and studying under Milton Babbitt. By the time he was 23, he had conducted his own symphonies with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. He currently holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and a PHD in Acoustical Physics from Stanford University. Under graduate from Bard College. He has composed and conducted both his own and others' contemporary and classical music in the U.S. and Europe.

During the 1970's, Lantz began incorporating color and abstract painting into his musical scores in an attempt to solve the two dimensional limitations of traditional music. By the 1980's, he had expanded his 'art scores' technique to the degree that traditional notation was no longer incorporated. He has returned full circle to painting works of art which are free from any notational significance, yet still retain the sense of timbre, rhythm, texture, and melody of music.

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Christopher Lantz

Abstract paintings on paper, acrylic, ink and charcoal used. Images are in the painting, and emotions. It takes weeks and months to complete a painting.