Category: Classical music

S_V_H Bach Cello Suite No.1in G Major, the Prélude

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

Here are the first couple of images of absolutely my last J S Bach artwork for this year.  I painted this work after watching the breakdown of this outstanding classical cello piece.  This is my third Bach work coming out of my temporary studio that is a free canvas based.  Again, as in the other two, I have kept the background mostly white. With this third work, I have limited the range of background colors to three blues to simplify the look of the color.

This is the image of this Prélude with the topcoat and the scratching completed.  I have developed a system to cleanly scratch-off the top acrylic layer of paint to reveal the base layer that is the above first image. The scratching is a lot more extensive than my previous works.  I have done that to push this method forward and to better adhere to wood attachments.  With this third work, I am abandoning my past, and going back to the future, which is working with wood to create a three-dimension look.

Here is a nice video version by Yo Yo Ma of J S Bach’s Cello suite Prélude:

I am not sure how this loose piece of the canvas will hold up to being moved with all the attached wooden pieces.  No matter, for now, this is my direction.

 

 

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Bach Minuet in B Minor BWV 1067 Final image

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Length 77″ x 20″ Canvas Size L80″ x 35″ border size 3″ around.

This is the final image of my second Bach Minuet on canvas.   Both Minuet artworks share attributes in size, colors,  design,  and the interesting scratch technique.  This artwork improves on the what the earlier Menuet figured out through trial and errors.  Now for an interesting challenge.  I will not stretch either of these works.   That means I will have issues to solve, including how I will hang these artworks.  Since I have musical arrangements for each of these Minuets, how am I going to attach the speakers, amplifier and switches.  Finally, since this art rarely sells, how will I safely store these artworks?  Hum?

I dropped my interactive, constructive sculpture style because of the move to my current small office studio.  I am not happy painting artworks on canvas, which I see as one-dimensional.  Music is my subject and portraying it works best in three dimensions.  I do not have the option to return to my preferred multi-dimensional art style. That means I have been using shading and contrast to create a fake looking two-dimensional musical artworks on canvas.  To finish these two canvas works, I will add the music, which will take time.   Hopefully, I will use the next few days to figure out how I will keep on keeping on, moving ahead.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H J S Bach Minuet in G Major BWV Anh. 114 Final visual image

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

This Bach Minuet visually is complete.  I still have to mount the music, square out the canvas, do something with the edges of the canvas, and create a mounting system so I can hang this artwork.  When those steps are complete than I will sign the finish date on the back.  For now, I am putting this project aside to start its companion piece, another Bach Minuet.   When I finished installing the music on these two pieces that will be, for now, the last of my Bach projects.  I am all Bached out.   Any future Classical Music works I will turn first to my favorites, Vivaldi or Mozart.

Until then here is my current arrangement of my the unfinished music for this project, Bach Minuet in G Major:

As for this style of art, I feel it differs to such an extant from this year’s previous artworks, that in a way they seem more like vacation projects.  Except although my vacation home may be on the lake,  it is a fishing lake and I don’t fish, and there’s no air conditioning.   So it goes.  It always does.  It always will.

 

Scott Von Holzen