Rondo No 3

About Rondo No 3

This modern geometric painting by Burton Kramer was inspired by music.

Burton Kramer is highly regarded as one of Canada’s finest graphic artists and designers. A modernist, Kramer’s paintings display bold graphic forms and bright colour palettes that often emulate the flow and rhythm of music. This vertical acrylic painting is filled with a variety of shapes—squares, rectangles, and triangles rendered in a bold palette of deep red, orange, pink, purple, yellow, green, lilac, blue, black and white that appear to float against a neutral backdrop.
As with all of Kramer’s work, there is visible movement in the dynamic flow of the composition. This piece is named after the music form called a rondo or what is commonly referred to as a refrain.

“Instrumentally produced, multi-layered sound offers the listener sensory pleasure. In my paintings, colour and forms, integrated in a structure-based composition, provide a similar pleasure.” Burton Kramer

Burton Kramer was born in New York City in 1932. He is renowned for designing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo in 1974. Kramer trained at Yale University (MFA), The Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (BSc), The Royal College of Art, London (Fulbright Scholar) and The State University of New York. Kramer has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Arts Ontario, The Order of Ontario by the Province, an Honorary Doctorate from Ontario College of Art & Design and was named a Member of the Order of Canada. His work has been exhibited in galleries internationally and is held in many private and public collections.