Sunday, July 14, 2013

rhythm

6 x 8, acrylic and ink
It's when I can do it in straight time that I know how to swing it, how to stretch the beat, and play with the elements to make it my own. With music. With painting. Music and art. Wildly different. Strikingly alike.

With these new paintings, I am deliberately missing the downbeat and shifting the rhythms.
Frank Sinatra was a master at it. Here's one of my favorites, "Fly Me to the Moon."



6 comments:

Casey Klahn said...

How fun that I have two blogs open, and both embedded a Sinatra video! Love the Chairman of the Board.

Very strong abstracts from you, KVAN!

Ruth Armitage said...

Love this Kathryn!

Katherine van Schoonhoven said...

Casey: I have been a big Sinatra fan for a long time. My mother still gets dewy eyed when she hears "Old Blue Eyes." Thanks about the painting!

Katherine van Schoonhoven said...

Thank you, Ruth! Sometimes good things come in small packages.

Sergio DS said...

How many rhythm I saw here today...
Thanks!

Karin Goeppert and Kenneth Burns said...

Beautiful, strong painting. I like it a lot.
And how funny that we also have Sinatra on our blog this time!