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Abstract painting as a graphic score - a co-authoring event

I'mSScore, takes a painterly approach to musical notation it can be described as a graphic score. Consisting of a series of conjoined paintings, a polyptych. The paintings are interconnected through unifying marks that carry the works from individual compositions to a long line of painted abstract instructions. The instruction themselves are abstract in the sense that they are open to interpretation. A democratic sentence of meaning that is freely interpreted through the gaze. Exhibited in a gallery, the works fill two distinct roles: to the viewer, they are a series of aesthetically pleasing paintings; to visiting musicians and/or sound experimenters, they offer a musical score that is open to their interpretation:  a wall-mounted manuscript that defies instituted meaning.core, takes a painterly approach to musical notation it can be described as a graphic score. Consisting of a series of conjoined paintings, a polyptych. The paintings are interconnected through unifying marks that carry the works from individual compositions to a long line of painted abstract instructions. The instruction themselves are abstract in the sense that they are open to interpretation. A democratic sentence of meaning that is freely interpreted through the gaze. Exhibited in a gallery, the works fill two distinct roles: to the viewer, they are a series of aesthetically pleasing paintings; to visiting musicians and/or sound experimenters, they offer a musical score that is open to their interpretation:  a wall-mounted manuscript that defies instituted meaning.Score, takes a painterly approach to musical notation it can be described as a graphic score. Consisting of a series of conjoined paintings, a polyptych. The paintings are interconnected through unifying marks that carry the works from individual compositions to a long line of painted abstract instructions. The instruction themselves are abstract in the sense that they are open to interpretation. A democratic sentence of meaning that is freely interpreted through the gaze. Exhibited in a gallery, the works fill two distinct roles: to the viewer, they are a series of aesthetically pleasing paintings; to visiting musicians and/or sound experimenters, they offer a musical score that is open to their interpretation:  a wall-mounted manuscript that defies instituted meaning. a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

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takes a painterly approach to musical notation it can be described as a graphic score. Consisting of a series of conjoined paintings, a polyptych. The paintings are interconnected through unifying marks that carry the works from individual compositions to a long line of painted abstract instructions. The instruction themselves are abstract in the sense that they are open to interpretation. A democratic sentence of meaning that is freely interpreted through the gaze. Exhibited in a gallery, the works fill two distinct roles: to the viewer, they are a series of aesthetically pleasing paintings; to visiting musicians and/or sound experimenters, they offer a musical score that is open to their interpretation:  a wall-mounted manuscript that defies instituted meaning.

Mike Hansen Art 2024
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