Category: Classical

S_V_H Serenade No.13 for Strings in G image4

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Mozart Eine Kleinie Nachtmusik, K.525 Romanze Andante.   That is mouth full. Go here at YouTube to actually hear this music played by some very interesting and talented fellows. Again the images are somewhat brighter than reality.  The brightness is nice, but again a little too florescent.

Listening to Susan Tedeschi – Just Won’t Burn

There is a feeling that something is happening here with this artwork: that a very large door is opening up, and this artist is going to step through it. Before getting there this canvas has demonstrated that there is still this learning curve with the mixing of colors, to achieve the desired effects of depth and color.  More art classes would have surely help, but that time has past. For now on we will learn by doing, and doing again, and still, not satisfied, so doing it again, until it sinks in.  It is what it is. No one said this would be easy. I am sure even Mozart,  and Picasso had there moments when they had no clue what they were doing.

Listening to The Notorious MSG – Chinatown Hustler.

Still,  not happy with the two side brown areas, for they seem boring and lack interest.  The middle orange section has just been worked on to increase it’s intensity to try and match the photos, which seems like a strange idea. Later tonight work will begin on the beams and slurs where the fun will be.

Listening to Tony Bennett – The Way You Look Tonight.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Serenade No.13 for Strings in G image3

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Mozart ‘s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Romanze Andate, 5 panels  33 inches by 123 inches. The Photoshop job to replace the background along the top and right edge could use some refining, but this does not lessen the value of the additional two small panels.

These panels accomplishes three things: they give the work a sculptured 3 dimensional look, that also gives the artist new ways to emphasize the diversity in the music. Thirdly, and maybe the best of all reasons for adding panels on top of panels, is that it frees this artist  completely from the restraints of limited canvases sizes. Now, instead of fitting the music to the available canvas, the canvases will be chosen to fit the needs of the music.

What you see above is the drawing in of the flow of this great Mozart piece. Next up is the choice of head and stem color and hopefully some other new techniques to make this the standard for 2012. I am feeling a lossening up of the technique and colors.  This may be because of the viewing of the works of Sean Scully,  and maybe it has to do a little with the curiosity of Basquiat. It is hard to tell, but this direction is a good feeling for this artist.  We shall see.

Scott Von Holzen

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Mozart’s K.525 Romanze Andante, 3 panel 30 inches by 10 feet.  For now this is the completed background, which is an abstraction artwork of its own  The goal of every painting is that each work is actually two artworks: an abstract background and the depiction of the flow of a particular piece of music.  It is hoped that together the two makes the one exceptional.

The finish of the background is  rough and with more contrast in shades.  The purpose of that is to keep the background interesting, as large parts of it are going to be covered by the music.  The thinking is that once the music is applied there will be a return to the background to give back some of the life taken away by the music, and to unite the two.

Listening to The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel

The best part about this work is its breaking with the previous paintings.  The desire is to keep heading in this direction,  and to not to return to the tried and proven.  This art needs to grow a lot before it is worth a second look, and this is the understanding that keeps pushing this artist, into the future.  It is the universal desire to know one self,  to see if there just may be something there, that can expose the real heart of the matter and your purpose in life.  Hum, good luck on that.

Listening to Crash Into Me – Debbie Comer

Next up is the drawing in of the music which should be done later on tonight.

Of note,  the movie Basquiat directed by Julian Schnabel was interesting and entertaining, but at times it seems unrealistic.  A better insight into the artist, is the documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Although Jean-Michel art has yet to make an impact on this artist;  he surely was an amazing talent, exceptional at the art of self promotion, living in the center of the art world, New York, and of course, a close friend of Andy Warhol. Wow, Basquiat was truly the artist in the right place at the right time.

Scott Von Holzen