Music Conversation, Embellished Themes, Shared Record
Jazz 3 – Digital Painting 2005
Unlike the previous explorations of portraying jazz, this one does not reference instruments. It does, however, attempt to reference music.
When it was created, I was listening to jazz, I was creating with the music as a fairly active listener – to the extent that is possible while painting.
As I am looking at the piece now, I see that perhaps I did create a conversation. There are several key players – the cross-hatched black, the blue tablecloth patterned ribbon, the orange shapes.
But what I see mostly that is similar to music is how everything is built upon each other. There is a theme and it is embellished upon and everything leads to something grander where everyone is contributing and it is bold but then it is done – contained in the space and/or time allotted.
The similarity between art and music is found in composition: in the space not just the subject, in the sense of being built upon within the piece, in the sense of building upon other art or music.
There is also the need for audience (even if it is just the author), and though much is unsaid – ideally it is a record that someone found something new and most likely wanted share it.
See Also
- The Connection: Painting with Sound
Discussion of particular connection between music and art - NPR: Manjul Bhargava: An Artist of Music and Math
Other connections – Music, Math, & Beauty - Multiple spaces: musical space/music-and-space
Discussion of importance of space (silence) in music - Joni Mitchell Hompage
Had thought of her as good example of artist/musician then spotted her site in related search
Tags: Art, composition, music, painting
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