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Size: 22 W x 15 H x 1 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Pierrot Lunaire was created for a 2003 performance of Arnold Schöenberg’s song cycle at the Yellow Barn Music Festival in Putney, Vermont. In 1912 Schoenberg set the poem Pierrot Lunaire by the late nineteenth-century Belgian Symbolist poet Albert Giraud in the experimental twelve-tone scale he had been developing over the previous decade. Schoenberg’s shrill and poignant atonality matched the ironic, excitable, and bitter tone of Giraud’s words. Images of the moon and moonlight recur throughout the libretto, with symbols and characters from the commedia de l’arte, amid the arid, brittle, crystalline texture and chilly, eruptive luminosity of the music. Pierrot is a pining Romantic and a sadistic trickster, a divine fool vacillating dramatically between sentimental longing and mocking nastiness (musicologist Paul Griffith states that Pierrot Lunaire, when faced with two alternatives, generally chooses both). By printing the same etching plate on the same page in both intaglio and in relief, a visual analogy to the sudden and startling reversals of emotional tone from tenderness to despair in the music is established. The folio contains 21 etchings and 23 pages total, and is housed in a decorated aluminum folio case.
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Printmaking:
Aquatint on Other
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:
1
Size:
22 W x 15 H x 1 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
SHIPPING AND RETURNS
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United States.
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Brian Cohen
United States
Brian D. Cohen is a printmaker, painter, educator, and writer. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with high honors from Haverford College and completed his MFA in Painting at the University of Washington. In 1989 he founded Bridge Press to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure. As a printmaker, Cohen has shown in over forty individual exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Fresno Art Museum, and has participated in over 200 group shows. Cohen’s books and etchings are held by major private and public collections throughout the country. Cohen was a winner of major international print competitions in San Diego, Philadelphia, Mexico City, and Washington, DC., was awarded the Best Book in Show at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair. He has received grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation. Cohen was an art teacher at The Putney School from 1985 until 2020, where he was Dean of Faculty and founding director of The Putney School Summer Programs. In 2001 he helped found Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, Vermont as its artistic director. Cohen’s teaching experience has also included classes and workshops at schools and studios throughout New England. Cohen is the illustrator of two popular natural science books, Reading the Forested Landscape and The Granite Landscape, and has contributed artwork to literary reviews and other publications, including the Paris Review. His writing on prints, books, and arts education have appeared in the Huffington Post, Art in Print, Parenthesis, The International Journal of Art and Art History, and other print and online journals and magazines. Cohen lives in Kennebunk, Maine.
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