This is among several paintings featuring this pianist. See others below:
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Art meets string theory
This is another in the Pianist series. The dancers whirling dervishness calls forth a parallel universe. My painting Pianist Singer Dancer https://garyjkirkpatrick.com/pianist-singer-ballerina/ first evoked that universe, The energetic dancing brought forth the more intense intrusion of a parallel universe.
The contrasts: between the representative and the abstract, the muted values and the blaring, the forms and motion, the unusual view from behind the performers.
This expressionistic piece combines imaginative and realistic elements such as we see in the dancer, from the performer’s point of view. The stained glass look continues, muted in the dark theater as is the audience. It’s about the challenges of cooperative performance. Without an audience there is no performance.
Light and dark interplay. Shafts of light downpour, adding to the pressure. The spotlight’s on you. Do it. There is one escape: that open door. But to get there you are judged more harshly.
Last year’s event here Dones de Picanya 2023 and 2022 here Dones de Picanya 2022
The pianist is our friend Husan, who is an opera voice coach. She has a sound proof room so in addition to seeing her on stage we also have sat in her small room while an opera singer flooded us with the fabulous voice of a trained singer.
“Nice perspective and contrast in that piece, they all look good, but that has “pop!””
“These works are truly astounding. I can appreciate, even though I am not creative on my own to depict dancers atop a violin or looking out the window of a purple house or project the feeling of actually being onstage with Husan.,, Keep sharing your work. It’s stunning.”
I have not seen her since she was 12. Quite the transformation. Here she is made up for a singing performance. Both she and her sister are musicians.
Xylophone player at the Palau de la Musica, Valencia, Spain. Fun house floor suggests a departure from every day reality, meeting with the muse, traveling to the realm of creativity.
Comments from my Facebook timeline July 24, 2016
Marti: Loved it Gary!
Sandra: This is fabulous Gary!
Carol: I love the energy.
Patricia: The combination treatments of floor patterns are interesting
Part of the Palau de la Music Series. Â Muses prepare the stage and the instruments for the performance so musicians step into the realm of creativity.Â
Another in the series of paintings based on drawings done at the Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Spain. The audience waits expectantly as the musicians arrive. Valencia has a long and powerful tradition of symphonic bands and offer many free concerts each year. This is a smaller hall and here you can listen to more traditional music.
This started life as a drawing at Palau de la Musica. I enlarged the original, a tiny 2 x 4″ and put it on the canvas board, then painted in with acrylics. See also Two Fiddles at the Palau, a version of this based on the very same drawing.
