Category: 2011

S_V_H More Than You Know Final image

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OK out there, here is the final image of  a great musical standard of the 20th century More Than You Know.  Listening to the Beau Brummels – They’ll Make You Cry.  I believe we use to play that song in the band, a long time ago.   On to Janet Jackson – Nasty,  which also feels good.  The personal preference is to be a nasty boy, but time and common sense has changed all of that. Billy Joel – A Matter Of Trust.

Some words about the words to this artwork, which are Luv you I do I do.  They are this artist interpretation  of the musical phrase, “Loving you the way that I do There’s nothing I can do about it.” The decision to paint a musical piece depends on these major things: How much does the music effect me.  For example can it be played over and over again, throughout the three or four weeks it will take to finish the work, and still sound fresh and meaningful?  Is there a musical phrase part of this music that has great interest and great opportunities to experiment with?  If there is a phrase that might work, and it contains words, can those words be twisted to  then become an expression of this artist.  And last, will the music fit on the available canvases.?  Actually, the first and biggest challenge is to go through the list of must paint music, and then convince all over again just why this music should be painted.  Some times it takes days, and no, no matter how practical it might seem, it is impossible to switch this artist mindset.  In other words, if  the current painting is More, there is no room for any other thoughts concerning the next work, which is now to be Heart.

More is an impressive effort that breaks new ground.  Above you are seeing on the top left the evolution of a musical beam.  On the whole right side you are seeing a a new take on a musical slur. Why should that make a difference?  Both of the examples above, show the slow but consistent effort to not paint boring things.  Certainly,  a curved line is a slur, and a rectangular box is a beam, but this art would have abandon a long time ago if that was all there is.  

Bruce Springsteen – Broke The Mold.  This artist understands all art evolves with repetition, but there is that moment that can separate the wall decoration painter from the born-to-lose artist.  This moment happens any number of times throughout an artwork.  Thanks, to the artwork, that demands to be different, and thanks to this artist is still lucky enough to feel what the work is saying, there is hope that the future will be full of of  swishes to swashes yet to come.

More Than You Know – Erroll Garner – Barbra Streisand – Dave Brubeck – Frank Sinatra – Judy Garland – Thelonious Monk – Dinah Washington – Billie Holiday – Ella Fitzgerald, and this artist’s very very favorite Sara Vaughan.

The third style point  used in this work, that has been mention, are the little abstractions that are the shafts used in five different locations.  At first they where thought of accomplishing something special, but soon those feelings faded away from that when they appeared to be lost in this work.  It was only adding the light green line along their edges did they seem then to pop back.

Platinum Weird – Will You Be Around.

It is the music that maintains this blog and the art.  It is hard to pull away from every night. It means that much.

Mozart – Piano Concerto No.22 III: Rondo.  From here next up is a 3 panel work  from the music of Don Henley entitled The Heart of the Matter.  The words chosen for this music are fitting and sum up the meaning of the music.  Those words are “forgiveness.”  You see if you can figure it out.

Something To Believe In – Poison.

And again Sarah Vaughan – More Than you know that is the finish to this blog post.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Baby Love final image

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Listening to Ironic by Alanis Morissette.  This is the final image of this painting titled Baby Love 24 inches by 6 feet.  The words chosen for this work because they would challenge some, maybe most, viewers.  The line from the music that they relate to is “Instead of breaking up let’s start some kissing and making up.”   Is that music not sweet and innocent, which was apart of that Time that I was raised and help formed a foundation of many of us.

Listening to We Belong by Ferry Corsten.  A lot of time was spent trying to do something different with the couple of musical ties, and that is where Jackson Pollack comes in.  The style ideas come from his painting Number 2 1949 ( A  much better image is in the book Jackson Pollack that was publish for The Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Exhibition of  1998-99). No matter, the ties are not Pollack they are at best, little inserts, to shake up the larger canvas and add interest.

Listening to Chopin Nocturne #2 In E Flat, Op. 9/2.

One thing missing from this work are the little solid circles inside the notes that give them motion.  They just did not fit with this composition, no matter how they where drawn and colored. Overall, the canvas could have been improved with some added impact on the far upper left. Although rethinking that, the  right is strong in appearance and maybe that helps to push this image across the canvas.   The coloring evolved to try and push this work more in the color scheme of the  thought of what the appearance of the musical group the Supremes might have been (TV back then was black and white).   For example a touch of that choice of coloring is seen above in that pinkest red rest (the small circle with the slanted line).

Listening to Ophelia by The Band and then Home Remedy by Adrienne Young & Little Sadie.

Time to move on to another 6 foot work.  This size is chosen again, because it is small enough to re-work it if needed.  This artist is still thinking his style still needs a lot of work and so there is this aching and need to experiment.  The basics are there, but the feeling is that things just have not been pushed hard enough.  A lot of work remains.  Looking forward to that.

Listening to Jackson Browne For A Dancer.  Nice music to end this page.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Vivaldi – L’Estro Armonico, Op. 3, Concerto No. 2, Larghetto finalimage

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Vivaldi

Listening to One Headlight by Wallflowers.

This is a link to one to a version of this music which starts at 3 minutes and 40 seconds in.  At about 5 minutes and 29 seconds is where this painting begins as the Larghetto part of this most wonderful music comes to an end.

This work is about finished. Although, the photos presented here are not detailed enough, the part of this image that is most interesting, to this artist technically, are those rectangle beams, which you see three of in the above image. With the use of a pallet knife and then layers brushed gently across the results are unique. This may be the next step through break through to hopefully move the backgrounds, since this art beginnings, away from a stylistic interpretation of Mark Rothko. To go to a much larger application will be challenging, use a lot more paint, and may look terrible, so that effort will be performed on a two foot by six foot canvas just to keeps things manageable.  Not sure the musical choice, just need the faith to step through the break, and work it to make it work on a big scale. We shall see.

Listening to Steely Dan FM, a favorite.

Style, is a large part of what separates true art from imitation and wall art. You paint, paint, paint and paint, and you try this and that and look at this artist and that artist and then you realize that no matter how you try to learn from others, your own way of doing things just keeps coming back.  And that is what is important.

Careless Love by Dr. John.

If you are every to become a unique artist among the other millions of other artists you need to come to terms with your own vision of art and then follow it without question.  If you question it, you will fail. You will be nothing about another self centered and boring Art blog here at WordPress.

Listening to Pa-pa-pa-pa  from Mozart’s The Magic Flute K.620

Die Of A Broken Heart by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. Yes, it is an acceptable Country tune.

This painting seems to be a summary of the last half dozen works.  This painting sums up and then, as mentioned shows the way forward away from what was taken for granted.  This artist is not ready yet, to pound out duplicates of a style of art, similar to what Rothko did when he was at his best.  Sure, there will arrive that same moment that arrived for Mark Rothko around 1948, but for now this artist is not feeling that.

Other music:

Nat King Cole  Unforgettable, a great barbershop tune that will live on hopefully many more generations.

Evil Nine  Cakehole

Get Off My Cloud The Rolling Stones

Listening to a heavy Rap piece by Dr. Dre  with Snoop Dog

Laura Nyro and Stoney End. Her album, Eli & The Thirteenth Confession, first heard when I arrived at my college dorm room in Madison, opened the musical floodgates.  I can still feel that moment, that now seems ten million years ago.

What this painting accomplished was to confirm to this artist his appreciation of  the music of Vivaldi.  The regret is that there must be dozens of other Classical Artists this artist should paint, but the limits of time and the amount of time it takes to complete a work, just make for many wonderful pieces of music that will be left out. Strange, that the choice for a Classical painting is not methodical but simply the current piece of music that sticks in this artist head at the moment a decision is needed. Even choosing the more  familiar modern music, a lot of the time the choice is random.

Listening to Aimee Mann live, Save Me.

There is no top one hundred pieces of music that this artist feels that are a must to be painted. Understand the music is –

Sam and Dave, Hold On! I’m Comin’

– the excuse to paint.  The painting allows this artist to listen to music. The music allows the pursuit of  the life long quest to find an unique way to creatively express oneself.

Simon & Garfunkel, Cecilia, another college apartment favorite with a good story to go along with it.

Time to move on.  Joe Cocker, The Weight

Scott Von Holzen