The Resurrection Sonata: Improvisation On A Theme Of Toad by Mark Sheeky

G910A The Resurrection Sonata: Improvisation On A Theme Of Toad
Oil on canvas panel
Apr 2017, 180x280

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About this painting
An improvised painting, I wanted to create something like a musical improvisation of the sort I play on piano, something captured quickly to convey a mood more than a specific meaning. As in music, there are themes here. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven would choose a theme from a random selection of notes, then build musical unity and complexity from those. In my case, the theme is visual. I chose two paintings as visual themes, 'Toad' by David Choquette and 'Antigone in front of the dead Polynices' by Nikiphoros Lytras. It was painted in a few hours on the 25th Apr 2017 and signed on the 9th of June.

To continue the musical theme, I decided to create two more parts, 'movements', to create a visual sonata, a classical music structure which usually consists of three parts; a fast and dramatic first movement, a slow middle movement, and a faster final movement which often plays upon themes in the other two.

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