Today instead of “See and Respond” your challenge is to “Hear and Respond.” Check out this series by Jason Moran for inspiration.
Jason Moran
Pianist and jazz composer, Jason Moran is interested in the cultural and political history of African American music. You can listen to a 7 minute piano piece here. Recently, his musical expressions have spilled into the visual arts.
To make these drawings he “fixed rolls of Japanese Gampi paper to piano keys, coated his fingers with various pigments, and played, sometimes improvising and sometimes reciting familiar tunes. Moran sees these works as ‘residues of a performance’ or even as another type of recording. They embody the power of sound that stems from black musical traditions.” – Luhring Augustine and Jason Moran
For the creative challenge today, if you play an instrument, find a way to use the instrument to make marks related to a piece of music. If you do not play, and if you do not have instruments around you, listen and respond to a piece of music.
When you’ve finished, please post your artwork. Tell us about the music that inspired you, and how you made your piece. Tag us so we can find your work: #30sal
A selection from Keith Pfeiffer’s Tone Class Seven months ago, during our summer in quarantine, eleven League artists set aside their colors and practiced just with light and dark tones. Here are a few of their studies. This is one in a series of posts showcasing a selection of artwork made by League artists during …
Keith Pfeiffer is new to the Seattle Artist League. He comes from an illustration background, and is venturing to make his living as a fine artist. I met Pfeiffer when he joined the Effects of Light (Thursday) class, and I’ve seen him whip out a series of effective thumbnail studies faster than I can say …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9047″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Eleanora Duse When looking at John Singer Sargent’s “effortless” portraits, I often wonder how long he actually spent on each. He wanted the painting to look fresh, with an economy of brush strokes, so a painting that looks like it was done in one …
Today’s post is from special guest star Anne Walker. Anne majored in Fine Arts with a focus in painting at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT in 1989. She started taking classes at the League a couple of years ago. I met her in Fran’s Giant Figures workshop in February 2020 (shortly before our classes went online). …
30SAL Challenge: Listen and Respond
Today instead of “See and Respond” your challenge is to “Hear and Respond.” Check out this series by Jason Moran for inspiration.
Jason Moran
Pianist and jazz composer, Jason Moran is interested in the cultural and political history of African American music. You can listen to a 7 minute piano piece here. Recently, his musical expressions have spilled into the visual arts.
To make these drawings he “fixed rolls of Japanese Gampi paper to piano keys, coated his fingers with various pigments, and played, sometimes improvising and sometimes reciting familiar tunes. Moran sees these works as ‘residues of a performance’ or even as another type of recording. They embody the power of sound that stems from black musical traditions.” – Luhring Augustine and Jason Moran
For the creative challenge today, if you play an instrument, find a way to use the instrument to make marks related to a piece of music. If you do not play, and if you do not have instruments around you, listen and respond to a piece of music.
When you’ve finished, please post your artwork. Tell us about the music that inspired you, and how you made your piece. Tag us so we can find your work: #30sal
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