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ARTIST
NOTES...
In "Capriccio" I wanted on
one level to express visually the sweep and rhythm of musical lines.
But I also wanted to convey a sense of the pianist's physical and
emotional connection to the instrument, of the energy generated
in a muscle finding its completion in the nuance of touch, of the
breath and rhythm of the body shaping a phrase, of the dance between
musician and instrument as they bring to their audience the recreation
of a world.
When
I create a painting I relate to the canvas as both painter and musician,
through a heightened awareness of the rich layers of correspondence
between these two expressive realms. There are many such correspondences.
Here are a few.
A
highly textured mass suggests a density of sound.
A
painted line, whether sinuous or angular, may flow and travel, now
thickened, now attenuated, as subtle and varied in its emotional
character as the legato or staccato articulations of a musical theme.
The
mass in a painting may thicken and gain in volume, then dissipate
into transparency, its energy spent. In this way the mass suggests
a musical passage whose vigorous body of sound will increasingly
fragment, and diminish, as it moves through the stages of transformation
and dissolution.
The
painted lines may move in and out of their mass in complex patterns,
like the melodic lines which periodically emerge from the density
of a musical structure, interact with other lines, then transform
and evolve before disappearing back into the orchestral mass.
A
painting's forms may shift toward the viewer through the assertive
energy of a sharp edge or overlapping planes, then soften their
boundaries and dissolve into the surrounding space, in the same
way that the dynamic level of a musical composition will increase,
pushing the sound mass toward the listener, then diminish, pulling
the action of the music back into a more distant perspective.
And
the negative space of a painting may find its analogy in the musical
pause, just as the blank canvas parallels the silence into which
the musical composition asserts its being.
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