Category: Classical

S_V_H Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, image1

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Mozart, “a little serenade”  Eine Kleinie Nachtmusik, K.525 Romanze Andante, 3 panels 30 inches by 10 feet. The inspiration for this base comes from Sean Scully and this particular work titled Yellow Seal.  The reproduction above is a little bright and the reproduction from the link and in his book, Sean Scully A Retrospective, are both quite different.  In reality it does not make that much different what colors the inspiration is, for what is put down on this canvas is its own expression.  My paint is different from his paint; my hand is different from his.

Sean Scully influence comes from his works before the year 2000.  It is amazing scrolling through the images of his art  just how many paintings this man has done.  This artist currently completes a dozen or so canvases in a year.  Looking through Sean Scully’s works, the thought is that so many of his works are similar, one after another, day after day, after month. You wonder how much feeling or meaning does he put into his efforts.  Of course, the amount of  time put in a artwork does not, in any way, decide its value.  Some days Van Gogh would complete 3 or 4 works, which are all worth a great amount of money, today; but you kinda-of-gotta-wonder what is any artist driving force, and maybe that can help to decide the artworks worth.  Maybe, and then again time nor effort may have little play in the real worlds evaluation of art.

This first image, of the unfinished base, is quite different from the previous works from 2011.  It is a departure in color brought on by this artist exhaustion with blue and green. What is being attempted here is to reach of a goal this artist wants to achieve: creating a artwork, that is the background, that stands on its own. The music flow of the little serenade, is the second artwork to be attempted.  The success is in bringing these two seperate artworks together to the music of Mozart. We shall see.

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

S_V_H Vivaldi – L’Estro Armonico, Op. 3, Concerto No. 2, Larghetto image7

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Listening to Ain’t No Other Man (live) sung by Christina Aquilera.

Three days ago:
Here is some thought before actually doing the work. This morning, after finding a long loss link,  an article in theCityReview  about the Impressionist & Modern Art auction at Sotheby’s on May 3rd of this year. The first image is of Picasso’s Femmes Lisant (no idea how to pronounce that). What struck was not the selling price, it came up short, not the subject of the painting ( do not see that) but the colors and the rounded shape and interactions of those colors.  The personal opinion of this artist is that most of Picasso’s later works, generally from the 1930s fall short, appearing to be done just to keep himself busy.

Still, after looking at this one work, never ever seen, there is a thought that those colors, the rounded shapes, and the dark outlines, look like something that could happen.

Two days a go: It appears nothing happened.  This style of painting by Picasso, which includes Le Reve (The Dream), and another painting that this artist discovered while searching for images of Femmes Lisant, La Lecture, could not be worked into the beams. This current work is to far enough along and the attempts that where tried looked dumb  and where quickly washed off.  The plan is to look for the next work to have some interesting beams that can be drawn large enough to see what has been learned from Picasso.

One day ago: The artist remembered there where four eighth notes,  yet to be painted that could easily be done in a early 1930s Picasso style.

Today:  The eighth notes are not finished but the idea and the execution is there.

Listening to The Temptations Ain’t Too Proud To Beg.  This is a hold over favorite from the movie The Big Chill.  Jaime O today was looking at the blog site and at this painting and was wondering if the wavy lines where ocean waves?  No, they are not, those lines are this artist exercise in trying to do something interesting with the boring lines that in so many of these works, just start at one end and go to the other creating a basic straight line effect.  There is,   a lingering Mark Rothko style to the backgrounds that started with the first music painting, and continues today, so do not expect those waving lines to become a permanent style change.  They break the norm, which is what they where meant to do; but that is about it. They are there for future consideration, and that is about it.

The Who are singing Substitute followed by Chopin Waltz #3 in A Minor, Op.34/2

If you compare the eighth notes from Hallelujah, which are quite outstanding, to those that are being drawn in on Vivaldi work, you see a representation that is a lot less stagnant looking.   One of this artist goal’s is make every effort to create movement across the canvas.  Here in this work Picasso shows the way. The only thing that bothers this artist is that Picasso painted those works more then 70 years ago. All art builds on the past, but this artist still feels a quilt and a need to find, similar to Jackson Pollack quest, a way to paint differently.

Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

Final thoughts before getting back to painting: Not satisfied with the note heads. Not sure if the dark spots will hold.  Also, there is a need to pop the background.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble singing Cold Shot.

Scott Von Holzen