Spent almost all of yesterday photographing/scanning Meals of Warm Spring and entering it into the Ruth Borchard competition. The process was long and complex and took until 2pm. My photography is working well enough but the main problem is the uneven lighting. I'm wondering whether to make some diffused studio lights, just for this photography, but I have little space to store them.
Today I'm back to painting. The key element of a classical symphony of the era of Mozart/Haydn/Beethoven is that each movement is a distinct mood which doesn't vary wildly. Beethoven's 5th is a prime example; each movement is a singular mood, though all movements are unified by the aaab motif. I want to add more paintings to form group unities like this because a painting is usually a singular mood, and alone is too much like a single tune, not powerful enough for a serious artwork of a structure which holds its unity in size and time. One painting can never equate to a group.
So today I'm adding some paintings to last year's works to create a broader structure. Apart from anything else this allows a wider gamut of moods. One painting is too tied to one mood. Some can be large and complex, perhaps like symphonic music evolved into (Sibelius' 7th), or progressive music. Genesis' Supper's Ready is hardly one mood, but one could say its many movements squashed over the top and into each other. Well, these considerations will inform my painting and music.
Today, a drawing to accompany Sacre Coeur from last year, in this exact way. I may be able to paint it today.
