For my project I would like to something along the lines of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, but reversed. Pictures at an Exhibition is a about 10-15 different musical numbers composed for drawings, painting, and sketches done by one of Mussorgsky’s friend. When Hartmann passed away Mussorgsky composed these scores to go along with Hartmann’s drawings and paintings. Here is a website that explains Mussorgsky and his Pictures at an Exhibition. http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gallery/pictures/hartmann.htm
I would like to compose pictures to what the music means to me. First I would like to choose maybe 5 to 8 different musical scores (it might be from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, it may not) and then compose images while listening to music. When researching I found lot of people who were inspired to make art from music that they have heard. If anyone knows a photographer who works from music let me know I haven’t found any yet.
My other idea was to travel around a little bit and take pictures of landscapes. After looking at the pictures I would take I would like to combine them together and make either one big picture or somewhat of a landscape scape picture. I was looking at Tony Hadley’s website, Hadley combines different landscape pictures together to make it look like one photo snap shot that has never been touched. His website is http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8146763
Another photographer I was looking at was Jeremy Turner and his panoramas. http://www.jturnerphotography.com/panorama/index.htm
Reading his website and how he got to these photos made me want to attempt the same things, but with more photos involved. He uses more photos in his new photographs which could use alil work, so the viewer cannot tell that there is more than one image in the photograph. One other artist I really liked when I was researching was Adam Gibbs; none of his photography really has any digital work added to it. I like the designs and colors he uses within his photographs. I also liked Gibb’s use of textures and lighting. Gibbs only uses the light that the sun provides which I honestly really like. He is a landscape/ wildlife photographer and with landscape light the sun is part of the landscape so I appreciate that he uses only the sun, and I would like to incorporate that into my project
