“For the past 10 years or so my father has painted in a geometric abstract style, which has been very satisfying for him. He is a fastidious person, a detail man, so he relishes the precision required to paint severe forms,” Frank Sinatra Jr. once shared before his father’s death (via Artland Magazine). The senior Sinatra was reportedly influenced by masters of the brush like Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Leroy Neiman, Walt Kuhn, and Childe Hassam. He also had a disposition for painting a certain type of subject that might surprise you: clowns (per Art Fix Daily).
“I think he identified with the mask they wear — but his clowns were never sad or evil looking,” Barbara Sinatra explained. Whether he was painting clowns or something else, there was a particular degree of abstractness and bold surrealism woven into his brush strokes that mirrored elements of Impressionism and Cubism. He had a passion for art that was by no means chaotic or arbitrary (via Artland Magazine).
