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Glenn Gould Nocturnal Existence
When I first heard Glenn Gould playing the piano, I was instantly inspired not only to find more of his recordings, but also to explore his unique personality. The more I learned, the more interested I became in his story, as if I had uncovered a mysterious treasure.
Glenn Gould never ceases to captivate my musical and artistic imagination. As a result, I was inspired to create these two paintings. One, captured outside, in nature and the other, Gould being lost in the pleasures of music at his piano in the middle of the night.
Shoshana Kertesz is a visual artist from Hungary currently living in New Jersey, USA. Many of her paintings are inspired by music.
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Glenn Gould II
By Shoshana Kertesz
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The Gouldian Finch
By Yuka Zuver
This pencil drawing is a symbolic representation of the contrast between an outward image and a true inner charisma of one’s personality: the character that manages to manifest itself perhaps only in the third party’s eyes.
Perched on a skeleton’s forefinger is a Gouldian Finch with semi-transparent light bulb fixed above its head. Gouldian Finches are as a matter of fact very colorful birds, and their stunning rainbow-colored exterior has been the attraction for bird lovers around the globe making the birds popular as pets for many years.
In this piece, however, the finch’s most relevant characteristic is entirely overlooked in order to signify the creature’s unawareness—the light bulb—of its own polychromatic beauty. Such is the situation with Glenn Gould, best known as one of the most celebrated world’s classical pianists in the Twentieth century, whose wondrous legacy profoundly inspired this piece of artwork.
Loathing bright colors of any kind and much preferring gloomy cloud-filled skies enigmatic Glenn Gould was utterly oblivious to his own vibrant aura, abundant with radiant colors, that was sparked by the perfectly-controlled chaos of his great musical brilliance. It is needless to say that his colorful gift keeps us audience enthralled nearly three decades after the musician’s tragic death.
The skeleton hand was drawn based on a reference image captured from a documentary on Gould, namely the series of X-ray images of a hand: to whom it belongs is unclear.
The piece was created in 2011 and is 6 x 9” in size. -
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