artist Lloyd Knowles close up
Black Angels – Dedicated to George Crumb. 32″x48″; mixed media on panel.
On this day in 1970, George Crumb completes his “Black Angels” for electric string quartet, percussion and water-tuned musical glasses. The score is inscribed: “finished on Friday the Thirteenth, March 1970 in tempore belli” (in time of war).
I also used part of the 9th chapter of Revelations:
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
This work pierces the soul in its revelation. The composition is srtong, original and has a great visual impact. The colors and light values enhance the artist’s intent. It uniquely represents the real and the abstract to create a conflict and a progression. This work is the work of an original contemplative mind.
A work rich of various materials, textures & effects; You even seems to have burn for real the bottom part of your canvas, did you? The upper part is both rythm & final curtain setting the scene theatrical but eating out much of the space on the prejudice to the depiction of the fantastic & aboundance within the Revelations text.
The use for a wide range of effects, from light to heavy ones is unusual; A very original work.