Category: Classical

Chopin Valse Op.64, No.2 image8

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

A Chopin Waltz.  This three foot by eight foot canvas is finished.  There was drifting at the end.  Usually there is a battle between the art and the artist but this time the art just let go, and the artist walked away.  A final  image with greater detail will be posted to scottvonholzen.com in the next few weeks.

The artist the web master and marketing person is just behind.  The painting comes first, and the blogging is put up to keep the documentation going,  and just maybe it is to let whomever out there know that the quest, the journey, the path forward, the dream, the habit, the fear, still lives on.

Not sure but this should be the end of the oval note: not enough action, enough movement, enough character, enough interest to keep on using them.  The pink tie is much loved and the use of color bands that work with the music are the best of this work.  Those two features move the art forward.   Luckily, this is still happening. Someday it will all be a big repeat, but for now there is more to come.   Even a marginally successful painting like this, at this stage in the art, can have an influence which will show on the next work.  So starts a favorite of the artist, they all are, I call your Name.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Chopin Waltz Op.64,No.2 image7

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This Chopin’s Valse in C sharp minor is starting to move forward.  This painting represents the five measures just before the  theme Piùl ento,  which means slower. Which means that the music slows quickly to that very high C.

It has been a struggle to get to this simple point in this work.  Hours are spent and hours are lost, and progress is made, and progress is forgotten in the damp rag that is used to wipe away hours of effort, hours of thought, and hours of confidence. This is what art is: never ever completely confident that what is being done is just that, art.   And…. still…it is all worth it, the lost contacts with friends and family, the time away mentally from everything else, and…the forever regrets for the selfish use of free time not spent with those you care most about.  The selfishness… the forever regrets, the constant fear that there is nothing more.  The quest for the art makes it worth it.  To be a good friend and not a best friend because the art got in the way is a worthy trade.  In the end it is always about the art,  and that life’s hours are a worthy sacrifice.  In time there will be moments to celebrate……those  short moments will make it all worth it.  Life is full of short pauses and quick catches, and slippery grasps…..they are all to be enjoyed.

Scott Von Holzen

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S_V_H Chopin Waltz Op.64,No.2 image6

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

Chopin Valse three feet by 8 feet in length.  That swirling pink line is the tie for this music.   Usually a tie is just a curved line, but that would be boring and that would be sheet music. This is not that, instead it is an attempt to create art from a fairly straight forward organization work sheet.  Think of these works in similar terms as the paintings of quarries by Cezanne or Van Gogh.  The personnel thought is that both of these artist did not see a quarry as the art but the contrast of shapes and colors as the art.  Here you see the same, shape and colors that display the flow of a Chopin  musical work. Simple.

Not sure that the round notation will last; for they seem too easy and predictable.   See it this way, there is Turner, and there is Rembrandt and there is what this art is today.  Tomorrow there will still be Turner and Rembrandt, as is,  but this art will be somewhere else: the slow and methodical evolution of an awakening thought. That is the unique opportunity provided to living artists.

Scott Von Holzen

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