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Indulge in the extraordinary opportunity to bring home the magnificent artwork of Peter Nixon with this remarkable hand-signed limited edition piece titled Harmonic I 2014 hand-embellished Giclee on canvas!
Details:
From the Arabic numbered edition of 595 examples (95 Arabic numbered European artist's proofs, 95 Arabic numbered artist's proofs, 95 Arabic numbered hors commerce proofs, 20 Arabic numbered printer's proofs and 3Arabic numbered bon a tirer proofs also exist).
The artist has commented on this work as follows:
The subject of this painting is Music, a favorite and ongoing theme in my work. Music is an intrinsic part of my working day and forms a backdrop in my studio. I aspire to create paintings that have the equivalent characteristics of music; the abstract qualities that create mood and atmosphere purely through combinations of sound, without reference to anything tangible. This dreamlike and haunting feature is explored in the painting-the main figure has a faraway look in her eyes as she plays a chord on the piano. I am not particularly musical but own a piano and am fascinated by how the mood in a group of notes can be changed-happy, sad, exhilarating, mysterious by moving one note in the chord up or down a semitone (..."how strange the change from Major to Minor.."). Some of the more evocative chords are shown in notation around the border of the painting. This trancelike quality is further enhanced by images around the picture. On the side of the piano is a portion of Giovanni Bellini's 'Feast of the Gods' a mysterious and magical early Renaissance painting. In the top left corner is Matisse's 'Piano Lesson', the composition of which is echoed at the base of the painting by a diagram of the strings of a piano, and behind the main figure is the head of a piano playing girl from Vermeer's painting 'The Concert.' I always think of large-scale orchestral works as being similar to architectural constructions so there is a dome-like structure behind the main figure constructed from interweaving musical symbols and notation echoed by a painting of a palace on the lid of the piano. There are other symbols around the painting: an infinity symbol, and a ship motif that represents curiosity as the start of a voyage of discovery. Above this is a bell echoing underwater again evoking the qualities of music. Around the picture are portraits of my favorite composers for the piano; Bach, Mozart, Debussy, and Beethoven. At the top of the painting is a fitting quotation from Nietzsche "Without music life would make no sense".
$1,000 sponsors one student for an entire academic school year.