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Interpreting Music with Color - Bach's Mass in B Minor June 28, 2019

6/28/2019

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"Agnus Dei"
Lamb of God
from Bach's Mass in B Minor
36" x 24"

This last painting interpreting Bach's masterpiece is quite different than the first three. I worried a bit about that. You often see artists whose paintings all look "the same", you can readily recognize their work. All I can say is that when I listened to this last movement called Agnus Dei, the music changed, it simplified, its tone was subdued and softened. I actually had a different idea for the bottom two/thirds of the painting, with a little more movement. But everything in my being told me to stop. I love the simplicity of it as do I love the image of Christ as the Lamb of God. I followed the music.

You can see a video montage of each of these paintings while listening to the music that inspired it. It is very meditative. I hope the color, texture and movement carry you more deeply into the music. Go to www.RobynSandAnderson.com. Hover over the tab "Interpreting Bach's Mass in B Minor" and the four sub-tabs beneath. Click on each one to find the video and music.



"Agnus Dei"
Acrylic on Gessobord with 2" Birch Sides
Ready to hang. SOLD

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Interpreting Music with Color - Bach's Mass in B Minor: June 27, 2019

6/27/2019

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"Sanctus"
from Bach's Mass in B Minor
36" x 24"

Sanctus means "holy". I thought about that a lot as I chose the colors and envisioned the movement inspired by this part of Bach's masterpiece. What is holy after all? Bach's Sanctus begins for me with a burst of spirals and sound. This song is all movement, with layers of voice and complexity. I knew that I wanted to portray this work with a burst of many colors and explosive movement. It evolved for me to the beginning of the universe, when all was set in motion, the planets and stars, shadow and light. And then the deep bass comes in giving us a foundation from which this burst flies up and out. It is glorious in its praise to the One who created all that is.

I grew up thinking that "holy" was something lofty and beyond myself. My particular journey has helped me to see that so many "ordinary" things we encounter in this life are indeed holy and sacred, from new plants lifting themselves out of the dirt to reach for the sun, to the eyes of a baby when they first really connect with you and a smile bursts forth.

While I am painting, I have a lot of time to contemplate life. As I immersed myself in Sanctus and thought about Bach writing this incredible work, I wondered, what was he thinking as he put these notes together? What did he want to say about life and faith with these instruments and voices? What I hear is that he was pointing to a Creator who takes delight in the beauty of this planet  in all of its ordinary and extraordinary holiness. This music is our response to that Love.


You can see a video montage of each of these paintings while listening to the music that inspired it. It is very meditative. I hope the color, texture and movement carry you more deeply into the music. Go to www.RobynSandAnderson.com. Hover over the tab "Interpreting Bach's Mass in B Minor" and the four sub-tabs beneath. Click on each one to find the video and music.



"Sanctus"
Acrylic on Gessobord with 2" Birch Sides
Ready to hang. SOLD

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Interpreting Music with Color -Bach's Mass in B Minor: June 26, 2019

6/26/2019

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"Credo: Et Crucifixus"
from Bach's Mass in B Minor
36" x  24"

In this second painting interpreting Bach's B Minor Mass, we turn from the Kyrie and Gloria to a more somber note. The music of Et Crucifixus immediately made me think of Jesus' plodding footsteps carrying the weight of the instrument that would kill him to the place of his death. Have you felt the weight of sorrow, of pain, of the evil that pervades this earth? Bach captures that heaviness with notes that sound like a heart beat or the pounding of nails. In this painting, I tried to capture the feeling of that heaviness, and the repetition of awful events like these throughout history. Are we destined to repeat hatred and injustice? No, I say with the bright yellow entering our darkness. This light sweeps in an arc suggesting the movement of God, along with the two other circles, Jesus' death on the cross and God's Spirit, who moves in and through us, who is our Advocate. Death will not win the day.

You, too, can see a video montage of each of these paintings while listening to the music that inspired it. It is very meditative. I hope the color, texture and movement carry you more deeply into the music. See the tab above "Interpreting Bach's Mass in B Minor" and the four sub-tabs beneath.



"Credo: Et Crucifixus"
Acrylic on Gessobord with 2" Birch Sides
Ready to hang. $1260

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Interpreting Music with Color-Bach's Mass in B Minor:  June 24, 2019

6/24/2019

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"Kyrie Eleison"
from Bach's Mass in B Minor
36" x 24"

On June 21 & 22 this month, the Bach Roots Festival performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor took place. I had spent the last two months creating four interpretations of this work, spread out over its expansive expression of the Mass. I chose to interpret Kyrie Eleison, Credo: Et Crucifixus, Sanctus and Agnus Dei. It was difficult to choose, because this work is extraordinary and hearing it live, directed by Matthew Olson, was full of vibrant life. I don't think I've ever experienced such a performance before. It was in fairly intimate settings and it allowed one to be enveloped by its beauty. I had a video montage of each painting created, which was projected on a screen above the choir, drawing people more deeply into the experience of the music. The originals were also there flanking the choir and orchestra. It was an honor to participate in this performance.

You, too, can see this video montage of each of these paintings while listening to the music that inspired it. It is very meditative. I hope the color, texture and movement carry you more deeply into the music. See the tab above "Interpreting Bach's Mass in B Minor" and the four sub-tabs beneath.



"Kyrie Eleison"
Acrylic on Gessobord with 2" Birch Sides
Ready to hang. $1260.00

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Hear My Voice: June 14, 2019

6/14/2019

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"God is Making All Things New"
Acrylic on Canvas 12" x 12"

God is making all things new. This phrase for me is like jumping into a pool of cool water when I've been in the hot sun for a few hours. It's shocking, really, and so refreshing! This is a reminder that the force for good, for love, mercy and forgiveness is at work in, around and under our lives on this beautiful planet and throughout the greater universe. I need to put this phrase on a wall in my house. Maybe every room. On my dashboard in the car, in my bike basket, okay...you get the idea.

When I feel overwhelmed by the awful things people do to other people, when I see the greed that perpetuates systems that harm people, when taking care of this planet comes second to the accumulation of wealth, when people lose everything with a catastrophic illness, when people can't afford the medication they need to live, the heaviness is hard to bear. It is overwhelming. I want to hide from it all, run away. But I cannot. Because I believe that part of the reason I am here is to love my neighbor. Sometimes this feels like slogging through heavy, wet mud. It feels like getting lost in some dense brambles without a way out. Sometimes my own physical struggles weigh me down. But then I read this phrase. God makes all things new. It brings tears to my eyes, because it is grace. I don't have to do it all. I don't have to save the world, or our country, or my loved ones. God is in it. God's Spirit moves to heal, to lift up and to connect us to each other. Together we can love the world. Together we can love one another. God makes all things new!


"God Makes All Things New" is part of "Hear My Voice: A Prison Prayer Book" which will launch in August at the ELCA's Churchwide Gathering. Here's a link: ://go.augsburgfortress.org/hear-my-voice-a-prison-prayer-book.

* This painting is available for purchase at $250. Email me at RobynSandAnderson@gmail.com if interested. I will be posting more. This painting has SOLD.
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