A CLEARER VIEW OF SYMPHONY SNIPPETS

THERE IS SPACE BETWEEN the layers of sound in a symphony. This layering is what I have tried to capture in my Synesthetic art.

Without layering the shapes and colors of sound would mix into one mess of a shape when you see them.

IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE THE LAYERS OF SOUND represented in the Snippets when using a frontal shot from the camera. Seeing the actual painting is the best way to understand what I mean.

HERE ARE TWO ANGLED SHOTS from one of Copeland’s symphonies and one of Stravinsky’s showing the actual depth of the paintings.

WITH THIS TECHNIQUE the base and melody can now maintain their own level of importance in the visual as they do in the audible.

Hope this helps.

CONCEPT ART, means to me, that the creation of the artist is a concept or idea of a particular situation, place, happening ,etc. manifesting itself in a way others may understand and even relate to themselves.

This is a lot like walking into the head of the artist.

ONCE YOU ARE IN THAT HEAD SOMETIMES what you are seeing needs to be explained. Especially by the owner of that head.

{I am sure every artist suffers when hearing someone else describe what they think the artist is “saying”.

I paint ideas.

Here is an explanation of my painting EMANCIPATION.

This painting is really in two parts…before and after.

Check it out on my web site for a closer look. ( 35″ x  12″  Acrylic on canvas )

Here is a sculpture portraying the feeling one has when s/he is trapped in a world of sameness. Blending into the environment almost to the point of oblivion where there is only the collective consciousness motivating one.

This atmosphere of conflicting opinions, viewpoints and  complaints were constantly bombarding his very being. If there was only a way to burst out of the mire of shared angst and quietly think things through a bit.

THE FIRST PAINTING shows this concept after the sculpture has mightily and successfully removed himself from that dilemma.

THE SECOND PAINTING shows the concept of the sculpture in an atmosphere of peace and calm where there is space to stretch, think and act from his own individual understanding. It is free to find and listen to his own ideas. This freedom to think also requires the right time and place to do it.

Now, what he does with those ideas would be another painting.

Just so you will know whose blog you are reading ………here are bits of info:

The most important information I can give you is that I am in my paintings……so look for me there. I paint ideas.  All of my abstract paintings express a particular conceptual idea that I want to release into the world of other ideas.

FAskedQ: What kind of painting are you doing right now?

FAnswered Q: I paint music.   I don’t paint to music. Meaning than I am not painting to the beat and rhythm of sounds (music). When I hear music the sounds appear as visual shapes, colors and textures in layers.   That is what I paint.

IS THIS AS WIERD AS IT SOUNDS? PROBABLY, BUT THERE ARE EXPLANATIONS. I have the gift of Synesthesia (a combination of senses) that allows me to see the music I hear and hear music in what I see.

For years I have realized that my interest and appreciation of music was way out of the norm in far too many ways.

I have hardly any music memory.             As I hear music it flows through my consciousness as a nowness experience.          At the same time that the sounds are recognized I see shapes, colors, forms, texture as layers floating in their own individual space.

IT GETS MORE WIERD: I have always been distracted by the words in songs and would turn off music when the singing began.

As I listen, the voice (as words) tend to overpower the colorful beauty of musical sounds.              The argument is that singing is music also.

In my world instrumental music and vocal music each have their place……… just not together or at the same time.

I have always wanted to just ———hold on to melodies———freeze them in time———appreciate their existence ———–and look at their beauty——— before they are whisked away to another dimension.

With much experimentation, patience and inspiration I have come up with my own way of presenting music as a visual art.

Symphony Snippet (Stravinsky)
mixed media on film
image size 8″ x 11″
framed size 22″ x 18″

© Jane Denison 2009