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45" x 73 " Acrylic on linen An avenue in the garden of the Tuileries, France, with a swarm of children and nurses. The visitor is enchanted by the soft scene as busy children and sharp-eyed nurses enjoy the Tuileries. All is mischief, squeals of merriment. All is sunshine and light shadow. The music races lightly throughout the piece with flute and woodwinds with a clarinet squeal periodically ended with the staccato of a flute. In 1874 Modest Mussorgsky attended a posthumous exhibition of his close friend artist Victor Hartman. and was profoundly moved by it.Mussorgsky set down his impressions in a composition of 10 tonal'pictures'. There is no evidence of any surviving works that resemble these 'pictures', only similarities. It is rather the imaginative and creative processes whereby the conception of a man of talentmay be turned into the tonal conception of a man of genius. Exactly 146 years later the processes again are transposed from the tonal conceptions back into the original original art form of visual conception. I too have been deeply moved, for the love between these two great men,(one exalted, one forgotten) is surely felt through every tonality and every dissonance. Today these works have been recovered through the years of researching them and the creativity of artist/composer J Lawrence Abrams, Each of Abrams paintings are titled exactly as Mussorgsky's tonal 'pictures' and in the same order.
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J Lawrence Abrams is a prolific artist whose works span 50 years. At age fourteen he received private instruction where he learned to apply solid fundamentals of design and color, and at age eighteen his oil paintings received juried top awards at various New York art galleries and centers. He painted from nature, particularly wildflower gardens in his loose, painterly way of manipulating oils on the canvas which is still evident today. During these years he also had a love for music, especially percussion. He studied under artist and mentor William Bippis while pursuing an undergraduate degree in percussion performance at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester N.Y. His eight years of advanced studies in both disciplines simultaneously greatly affected his approach to form and composition in the visual arts as well as music, realizing the capabilities of this natural occurring parallel of their compositional parameters. Similarly, to the “Orpheus Group’ of the earlier part of the 20th century, he began to interchange concepts of two-dimension and three-dimension art works with those of absolute music compositions. His philosophy of the visual arts is that they are first felt through the senses, as is with absolute music, thereby; what is perceived durational in one discipline(tonal) can also be observed simultaneously in the other (visual) and vise-a-verse. For example, the theme and variation format of music composition can also be applied to visual art, and devices such as silences or pauses in music can be compared similarly to voids in a painting or sculpture. In his works these elements are hierarchically arranged to work interdependently with each other. This is exemplified particularly throughout the set of ten paintings by J Lawrence titled “Pictures at an Exhibition”; these are based on Mussorgsky’s piano suite of ten “tonal pictures”.
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