Tag: Sean Scully

S_V_H Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons(Autumn)adagio molto image5

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Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, 5 panels 120 inches (3m) in length. I have decided it was time to move the photography of this artwork forward and work with RAW images. In the before time there was a 4by5 camera and a large format darkroom.  This photographer spend way to much time on darkroom techniques, instead of creative photography.  The move to digital and the end of the dream to be a professional photographer, especially after returning to painting in late 2004, all lead to the abandonment of the dark and the quest to be the next Ansel Adams. Today, I shoot  a Canon 7D with a Tamron lens, and shooting in RAW brings back some of those old beloved darkroom feelings.  Looking at this first attempt this web image is close to the artwork, in color and feel, but with a tad too much saturation.

Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U  Music that needs to be painted.

Listening to Renee Olstead – Someone to Watch Over Me.

This work has been in progress of over a month.  Summer has slowed the art, and it may take another week or more to finish this work.  It is important to finish it soon to keep the momentum and interest up.  This  canvas has been demanding and it was only last night that I began to see some aspects of what I call a finished looked. That is telling that the work is starting to become its own statement.

Joe Turner – Shake, Rattle and Roll

Queen – Somebody to Love

The ties (all those squiggly  lines) will be the look that will dominate this work.  To note this is the first time  that there are combos of hand drawn and  ties created with the help of a compass.  The use of hand drawn ties, especially along the right side as this music ends, softens the look, similar to the music as it fads away.  Again you see the influence of Sean Scully, in the rectangle stripping.  This Vivaldi music is composed of a lot of dotted half  notes.

Clint Black – Are You Sure Waylon Done it This Way.

July Collins – Brother Can You Spare A Dime

The drawings,  in this painting, of  this arts version of the dotted half-note, were done to create a unique look for each. Since this arts focus has evolved over the years to be about displaying the of flow of the music, and not to replicate the actual music, that has created an environment of freedom that tests, and pushes to see how deep the talent is. Music is much more then the standard notation that gives it a representation.  The best  musicians take a song to new places, and own it.  But can this art achieve those same results?  That is this artist quest. Still can he own it?  That, is something  I want to find out.

Listening to Landside – Fleetwood Mac

Bruce Springsteen –  Because The Night

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S_V_H Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons(Spring)” Largo image4

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Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons RV 269 122 inches (3m) in length, and the second in the 13 part series that celebrates these four concertos.  Link  HERE and at the 25 second mark the painting follows the flow of the music.  It has always been felt that when viewing this art that there should be music present, and turned up.   For sure,  the music can survive  without this art, but I can say without doubt, that this art needs music to be appreciated, and to be connected.

Tab Benoit – Drownin’ on Dry Land

Listening to Naughty by Nature – Hip Hop Hooray

Duke Ellington w/ Ella Fitzgerald – Satin Doll

The Art Deco lines, seen in the above images,  are something new.  They are, the  result of a felt need, to move away from the tried and proven style for representing a  musical Tie, that can be seen in Summer Allegro non molto.  Also, in those ties the continuing influence of Sean Scully, for example,  can be seen.  But now looking at them there has been a change in thought.  In some way, could it be possible to  Rothko those  boxy blue rectangle,s that are supporting and enhancing those ties, or at less soften them to better match the mood of this music.

Canned Heat – On the Road Again, a classic favorite.

The Funk Brothers – You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me.

The words need to be punched up somewhat, and so does the overall green background look, that has become somewhat common.  Since the backgrounds purpose is to do more than be an abstract painting, that sets the mood for the music,  it would nice to find a better, stronger, more creative, and original style.  There is a lot of discovery to be done.  The original ideas for the backgrounds came from the influences of Rothko, but little of that is being seen here. There is the need to take another look at Rothko and other artists like Hans Hartung, for example. For now the thought is do something with the large rectangle that holds the words.   A change here would pop the message, and strengthen the bottom part of this artwork that now appears to be top heavy.

Listening to Patty Griffin – Peter Pan

Shakin’ Stevens – Hot Dog

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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.

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