Friday, February 6, 2009

Improvisation for Lukas Foss


T. Renner, "Half-Remembered (Improvisation for Lukas Foss)," 2009, acrylic on canvas, 8" x 10.

The composer Lukas Foss recently died, and "Fresh Air" ran an interview from 1998 with him today while I was working in my new studio. Foss said something about his work being an attempt to recreate half-remembered music. The above painting is my attempt to recreate a painting on the cover of an album by Al Grey. I didn't have the album cover in front of me so I was definitely working from memory.

2 comments:

Colin said...
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Colin said...

Nice! That is wild... I'm using very similar colors in a painting I'm nearly finished with. On cardboard of course...