Category: Modern

S_V_H Baby Love final image

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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 Baby Love image4

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Baby love with a little Hans Hoffmann thrown in that was first found in the book Abstract Expressionism by Taschen. this artist has been well aware of his importance , but not until after two days of frustration did the late style of Hans Hoffmann  became the obvious choice for this canvas.

This background is not feeling right with this music.  The music flow and that look is good, and the effort to use colors in the flow that work with the background is good, but still the fit is off.

New, updated image the evening of  September 7th.  There has been a lot of a delay with this work because there was the feeling that the background did not fit the music.  Since the chosen music Baby Love by the Supremes is a found memory, it is only that.  There was no strong emotional desire for this music, it just came available and fit, at the time that something was needed that could be used to test some techniques.  Many days later, those style trials seem quit yesterday.

September 13th Listening to Avril Lavigne  Under My Skin.  This work is strange.  The music it is based on is of marginal importance to this artist but what is importance is the testing of techniques.  This canvas has a style____

Listening to The Animals, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.

___influenced by Hans Hoffmann, plue in the above image you can see the influence of the Artist Marta Marce  and her work from 2008 , and in a later image the addition of a small amount of Jackson Pollack is present in the two ties.

Listening to Hurt by Nine Inch Nails.   This work is about finished after three weeks.  A final image will be posted tomorrow, with discussion about it’s impact, direction, and what is up next.

Scott Von Holzen

Listening to Take Five Dave Brubeck

S_V_H Baby Love image2&3

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Baby Love the 1964 hit by Diana Ross and the Supremes, two foot by 6 foot canvas.  Certainly you can see this image has similarities with this years Birthday painting. What is difficult to see is the similarities between image 2 and image 3.

This art is evolving with each canvas in search of a unique style for displaying a unique theme.  A  question that bothers is what happens when you find that unique way of expressing  paint on canvas?  Here the wonder is what went on in the minds of Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko when they new that they had found their own styles.  Pollack best drip paintings occur around 1948 to 1950, judging that from the book Jackson Pollack, that was part of a 1998-99 exhibition of his works at the Museum of Modern Art. Rothko’s style found its moments, again around 1948, and truly hit its signature look in the 1950s. Strange, paging through Mark Rothko The Works on Canvas, is that the last painting pictured, done in 1970, looks similar in style to those done in the early fifties.   So it appears that every style, even your signature style,  can either run its course quickly as with Pollack, or in the case of Rothko, be repeated and tweaked for twenty years. Just thoughts, for at this moment nothing is preventing this artist from going in any direction.  And I mean nothing.

Listening to Mozart piano Concerto No. 9.

The background is done, so tonight the music is going down.  What will be interesting, and the challenge for this artist is how to make the music stand out from the background, or not how to make the music stand out, but instead how to get it the melt with, or merge into.

Also, since Baby Love pretty much was recorded only by the Supremes, I have decided to steam the music from Pandora with stations created for the Supremes, the Animals, the Beatles, The Association, and maybe a mix of other 60s girl bands and a chunk of Motown to round thing off.  The music sets the mood for the painting.

Coldplay In My Place.

Scott Von Holzen