Tag: Antonio Vivaldi

S_V_H Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Winter Largo image3

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Winter Largo.  This artwork consists of ten canvases.  I would like to expand on the included video about the growing individuality of each attached canvas.  You have seen this style  show up in earlier works including this years Christmas painting, and now it is being deliberately done, in Winter Largo.  It is with Winter Largo  where I see the possibilities of using this technique  coming into clear focus. The idea is simple, let each separate canvas have a look that is different from the other attached canvases, and yet still share some features that keep the artwork together. Like a song being preformed differently because of the uniqueness of the artist, now these artworks can finally depict this versatility. This also helps to  release me from the boredom of the limitations of color and acrylic paints.

In past works I felt I had no other choice but to paint the same basic look across the entire work no matter the number of attached canvases.  In order to create something fresh,  I have tried different  applications and removal techniques, using different types of brushes and knives, to spread the paint around the entire work. In the end I mostly accomplished the covering up of much of  the white of the primed canvas. In that reality the major purpose and function of a background was to build an environment that contrasted with the music. That thinking , hopefully is changing, with backgrounds that are interesting and varied to look at, and that may challenge the look of the music, or the view of the artwork .  This door is wide open, hopefully it is real, and that I can step even further through it.

This is a CloseUP of those little pieces of music that are floating about.

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S_V_H Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Winter Largo image2

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Winter – Largo. This work not has 10 panels and is just over 15 feet in length.  What I did find interesting about the progress of this work, is the idea that each panel can have a unique style.  Of course all the panels do work together, which is important in that they support the musical theme which flows across the entire work. The beams in the past appeared as simple rectangles with patterns of colors, or as pieces from a rectangle scattered about, or even left out of the picture.  In this work they are now being portrayed in a far more interesting way.

With a good start learned from The Christmas Painting of 2012, the beams now are adding a dramatic movement to the artwork.  As said many times before, the feeling of motion is a must in these artworks. So, if you look at the beams you can still make out parts of the original rectangles, in Prussian Blue, so there still is structure; but then over them comes the curving figures, that add interest and motion that just was not there in the past.  This is good approach that offers lots of options for future works.

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As for the CloseUP view, you can see how sketchy the artwork appears at this stage.  In the final week of this work, I will spend a lot of time cleaning up edges, filling in the gaps and giving the entire work a cleaner look.  Actually, getting to that finished look, still surprises me, in how much difference that does make in the overall feeling to the painting. It is only getting to that looked that I know it is time to move on.

I think that a video is useful in portraying  the Artist and his connection to the Artwork.

Scott Von Holzen

S_V_H Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Winter Largo image1

Published on by Scott Von Holzen

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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons Winter Largo first image.  This work consists of nine panels with a length of just over 15 feet or about 4.57meters. The larger image I created using PhotoMerge in Photoshop, because of space and camera limitations. Hopefully, in time, I will be able to align the joined images evenly.

This is a close up of the upper left side of this canvass.

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What sets this work apart is the incorporation so many diverse panels that follow the flow of the music.  In the past the music followed the canvas, but you have seen, especially in the previously Vivaldi work Autumn allegro, that I am letting the music dictate the look of the artwork.  This is important.  As my skill and understanding grows I see this style of portraying music as the direction to seek out and follow. This artwork moves a little further, in that direction.   By having four large panels that are a major part of the work and not just add-on pieces, and with the artwork changing directions, this canvas moves right along with the music. The attempt is to try to capture, in a sense,  the feeling and emotion of the sound, that is music.

Listening to On a Good Day – Jude JohnStone

White Room – Cream. I like the wah-wah pedal.

Fur Elise – Beethoven

For A Dancer – Jackson Browne

Over the Rainbow – Eva Cassidy. A nice version of one of my forever favorite pieces of music.

Queen – Somebody to Love