Tag: Music

This Bach Minuet visually is complete.  I still have to mount the music, square out the canvas, do something with the edges of the canvas, and create a mounting system so I can hang this artwork.  When those steps are complete than I will sign the finish date on the back.  For now, I am putting this project aside to start its companion piece, another Bach Minuet.   When I finished installing the music on these two pieces that will be, for now, the last of my Bach projects.  I am all Bached out.   Any future Classical Music works I will turn first to my favorites, Vivaldi or Mozart.

Until then here is my current arrangement of my the unfinished music for this project, Bach Minuet in G Major:

As for this style of art, I feel it differs to such an extant from this year’s previous artworks, that in a way they seem more like vacation projects.  Except although my vacation home may be on the lake,  it is a fishing lake and I don’t fish, and there’s no air conditioning.   So it goes.  It always does.  It always will.

 

Scott Von Holzen

 

 

 

This is a near image completion of J. S. Bach’s famous Minuet in G major.  I learned later that this music was composed by Christian Petzoldand. This is a video of a fast pace version of the music:

 

If this music sounds familiar to you that means you are about my age.  Here is a video of the 1965 hit, A Lover’s Concerto,  by the Toys:

 

The image above is of my new temporary studio.  It is about 150 square feet in space.  An enormous help for space, not seen in the photo, is a wall of adjustable bookshelves where I store my painting supplies.  The ceiling is a marvelous eleven feet in height.  At less this time I have some natural light, compared with my 2016 temporary studio.  My only other lighting comes from a five light fan of which I have ungraded two of the bulbs to floods aimed at the artwork.  Still, the lighting is bad.  This makes judging my efforts a learning process, not helped by the lack of room to step back to view this larger work.   I confronted the reality of my temporary studio  when I read this line from a book by David Byrne about his band, the Talking Heads:  “Ive always liked creative restrictions, and here, happily, many were already in place.”  I’ll check that off.

Scott Von Holzen