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Work in Progress: The Guitar Player
Updated May 1, 2017 Here is the updated version of the Guitar Player. I added more to the textured background.
I was part of a group exhibition at the Cornelia Arts Building in Chicago. Across from where my work was set up, was the live music room. I decided to bring an empty board and a box, full of all sorts of scrap paper materials. I wanted to see what I can create as I was listening to the music. Along came the Guitar Player.
Night Music
Night Music – Set of two, 40×30″ ea. Paper on Acrylic on hard board with carriage bolts and washers.
Inspired by the poem by Philip Larkin
At one the wind rose,
And with it the noise
Of the black poplars.
Long since had the living
By a thin twine
Been led into their dreams
Where lanterns shine
Under a still veil
Of falling streams;
Long since had the dead
Become untroubled
In the light soil.
There were no mouths
To drink of the wind,
Nor any eyes
To sharpen on the stars’
Wide heaven-holding,
Only the sound
Long sibilant-muscled trees
Were lifting up, the black poplars.
And in their blazing solitude
The stars sang in their sockets through
the night:
`Blow bright, blow bright
The coal of this unquickened world.’
Waves of Music
Waves of Music 2008 – Acrylic on corkboard, paper, and hardboard. 40″x30″
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Chicago has always been a musical hotbed. The music has included the introduction of jazz in the 1920s by the likes of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton and the birth of the “Chicago Blues” by the electric riffs of Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, and the rough and powerful voice of Koko Taylor. The club scene has been dancing to the innovative heavy beats of house music created by DJs Frankie Knuckles and Walter Gibbons and to the industrial music of Ministry. Local punk and alternative rock bands such as Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, Alkaline Trio and hip-hop artists Kanye West and Common have made their mark in today’s music industry. Plus, Chicago enjoys the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the ever-growing popularity of folk and world music. Just as we are fortunate to have the beauty of the lakefront, we should feel grateful for the variety of music, both old and new, that rushes over us, wave after wave.
Michael Del Valle Art 