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Monday, 19 May 2025

Watchful Eyes Printed series -Levels of Drawings 2025- Imprinted Seal Exhibition

 

                                                Level #05

                                                Music: Aprex Vous Deep Purple Instrumental Version


                                            Level # 06


                                            Level # 22



                                            Level # 23



                                                        Level # 15


                                            Level # 29



                                            Level # 34 Level 4


                                                        Level#37 Level 5

                                            Level #8 Level 8


Arlene Rabinowitz

2025



Thursday, 15 May 2025

Imprinted Seal Exhibition 2025 - Article

 

IMPRINTED SEAL SERIES 4

2025

ARLENE RABINOWITZ

Sight through sound

Sound through sight

 

 

“Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, great plains, valleys and hills, in various ways. ” Leonardo da Vinci

Concept of artworks

All the artworks chosen for this exhibition were drawn to Rock jazz music. Namely to the band Deep Purple. The aim of the exhibition was to find ways to translate the music to a personalized visual language. The artworks are inspired by music and its analytical translation to visual art.

The exhibition is divided into two sections, black and white series where the artist wished to preserve the impressions and atmosphere observed from her immediate environment. These were drawn to songs from the album “Turning to Crime”. The second series is of abstract drawings reflects time and motion via analytical translation of the instruments played in the songs, “Apre’x Vous” instrumental version. “Wring that neck” and “dancing in my sleep” There are connections to the meanings of images and shadows and sound to sense associations.

Listening to music often conjures images in the listener’s mind that can induce emotions in the process. The theme of the natural world draws the viewer to consider alternative imaginary meanings and its symbolic associations, which exist between them.  The choice serves as a metaphor to varied consciousness levels perceived by the artist to express deconstruction and destruction elements. (Watchful Eyes). The spectator is invited to participate in or identify with the visual language that the artist explored in her search. The theme was explored in pastel and clear acrylic glazes on paper via spontaneous linear marks and a fragmental approach.

 Translation of music and its perception

In the abstract artworks the artist did not conjure an image initially with a song but in abstract mark making technique following a linear and dots technique, a project called Sound Travel. Whereby the analysis of the whole composition of the song and parts of and later segments of the individual instruments, were drawn in blocks. This was a gradual process and was divided into levels of transformative layers perceived as a visual symbols or images. Working in layers upon layers whereby (Watchful Eyes) the images appear and disappear using pastel and acrylic washes. It was a process that revealed transformations from how the translated sounds were perceived by memorizing the song numerous times.

 

The Drawings & Technique: The interpretation and perception and sensory fusion of Rock music to painting

In the drawings in graphite, (Black & white) are semi realistic artworks and inspired by immediate environment of Neot Semadar. An emphasis on tree trunks like the acacia and "yanbut” is evident throughout. The artist experienced shapes, texture and movement creating landscapes that are referred to as maps drawing to the beat and tempo of the music.

In the abstract drawings the artist demonstrates sensory fusions through sight, sound, taste and hearing. Ways of experiencing, seeing images the world of natural elements that the artist perceived from the musical composition. Prints of various stages of the art work (Watchful Eyes) demonstrate the levels of transformation between each perception of the instruments used in the songs. Through numerous listening sessions images likened in the imagination to symbols like waves, rock art, architectural building, plants and bubbles appeared once further listening sessions and the song was played to and memorized. The artist perceived the colour choices intuitively when seeing a particular color upon hearing a certain musical pitch or combination of musical notes.

The artworks represented in this exhibition reflect the artists’ expression of translating a musical composition to painting via analytical views of sound perceived. The music dictates the direction of the visual composition in abstract form. Particularly Accents and descents of the music and translating sound pitch dictates the direction of sound in visual terms.

The visual language of the thematic art works expresses the natural world through analogy, symbolism, Repetitive motifs and chromo synesthesia. (Type of synesthesia in which sound involuntarily evokes an experience of colours to a sound).  The particular colours were chosen by changes in instrumentation or timbre, and higher and lower pitches were associated with lighter and darker colours, respectively. The artist also experienced shapes, texture, and movement creating landscape through the listening process of the sound.  Whereby the artist explored the cooperation between the senses (Sight taste and hearing) and the connection between image and picture and shadows.  (Watchful Eyes).

The artist was also looking to experiment and explore with different types of media such as pastel mixed with gesso and clear acrylic medium which were used as glazes wet on wet and be used as a fixative for each layer. (Watchful Eyes; Sail)

Her research evolved around image and shadows of which numerous photographic accounts of transformation to the same songs were done (Watchful Eyes) to arrive at the final piece of artwork.

The artworks were influenced by a previous exhibition titled “Home” (1996) where the artist explored objects from the natural world such as rocks, trees and unidentified objects from her immediate environment.


Arlene Rabinowitz

 

 

 

Monday, 14 April 2025

Imprinted Seal Exhibition - After caught in the Act

 

Title: After “caught in the act” Deep Purple album Turning to crime.

תצרף 

The analysis of the song in coloured pastels to the song read from left to right

Drawn on transparent paper. The use of bold reds and blue hues evokes the tension and release of musical phrases.  The music gives a feeling of phases with a lengthy organ solo. The overall sense of dynamism and movement resonates with the energy of the musical piece. The rhythm can be noted through lines, shapes and colours. The tone is varied as the composition is off centre. In this drawing an analysis of the song was attempted.

                                Title "After Caught in the Act"/תצרף

                                58x41cm

                                Pastel on transparent paper 2022


Arlene Rabinowitz©

 


Imprinted Seal Exhibition - Bicycle against a tree 2025

 

Title: Bicycle against a tree

רוח החיה באופנים

The movement of the Yanbut tree trunks outside the main office of Neot Semadar where often people leave their bicycles leaning across the trunks. The characteristic movement of the tree trunk against a dark background. Negative space and positive space is characteristic of this drawing.

Drawn to various songs of the album Turning to crime –band Deep Purple.


                                            Title: Bicycle and a tree/רוח באופנים

                                            61x35cm

                                            Pastel on paper


Arlene Rabinowitz©2025



Imprinted Seal Exhibition - Thorny Bush Tree

 

Title: Thorney bush tree

 שואף לפרוח

69x50cm 2021

Detail in pastel of a bushy tree outside the main office at Neot Semadar. Drawn to various songs from the album Turning to Crime by the band Deep Purple.

Detail of a bushy part of the Yanbut tree. Map of the entanglement of life seen through this bushy tree. The innerness of home and consciousness.


                                            Title: Thorny Bush Tree/שואף לפרוח

                                            62x45cm

                                            Pastel on paper


Arlene Rabinowitz©

                                            


Imprinted Seal Exhibition - Stack of Rocks 2025

Title: Stack of rocks

אילן ןפקעותיו

54x29cm 2021 


Inspired by the camp from November Outing. Concept of Home and what it means to me. The stacked rocks symbolize stability, strength, and endurance. The trunks symbolize the earthly worlds. The tent symbolizes a nomadic home.

Inspired from camping at the camp site called November Outing at Neot Semadar.

Drawn to various songs from the album Turning to Crime album Deep Purple.


                                            Title: Stack of Rocks האילן ופקעותיו

                                            54x29cm 2021

                                            Pastel on paper


Arlene Rabinowitz©

 


Imprinted Seal Exhibition - Outdoor Table 2021

 

Title: Outdoor Table

Title: Outdoor Table

שלכת רכה

Emphasis on wooden tree trunk structures near the vegetable garden of Neot Semadar. The depiction of found objects in my immediate environment coupled with the movement of tree trunks. Concept of life growth and inner transformation. Intense dark background the composition of the still life is cluttered and fragmented.

Drawn to various songs of the album “Turning to Crime” Deep Purple.


                                            Title: Outdoor Table

                                            57x38cm 

                                            Pastel on paper 2021


Arlene Rabinowitz©


Imprinted Seal Exhibition - Roots

 

Title: Roots 

Title: להכות שורש   Roots

55x41cm 2021

Emphasizing the dead acacia tree trunks and piles of rocks stacked. Mark making technique inspired by the album “Turning to Crime” by the band Deep Purple. Drawn to the rhythm of the sound. The rocks symbolize a grave and the trees the tree of life. Part of the concept of home. Life and death as opposites.


                                            Title: Roots להכות שורש

                                            55x41cm

                                            Pastel on paper graphite 2021


Arlene Rabinowitz© 2025


Imprinted Seal Exhibition - Peace Dream 2022

Title: Peace Dream- רוקד בחלומי

Music: Dancing in my Sleep Band Deep Purple album Album Whoosh 2020 Act 1 03.

43x48cm

Medium: Pastel on paper

Visual Music Drawing 


Using a grid of squares I chose the colours intuitively after a few listening sessions memorized song and started from a point concentrating on accents and descents of the sound lyrics were disregarded. Drawing real time.

The shapes or organic free flowing characteristics are colorful and bright giving the drawing a calm effect. The linear marks done to the organ and electric solo pieces are condensed. There’s repetition in the first part of the drawing in line with the song.

The last few sessions concentrated on noting the rhythm of the music after a short ‘warm up’ to be familiarized with the beat of the sound.

On an emotive and perceptual plain, as an added visual music “performer”, the lyrics and instrumental sound induce synesthetic experiences. In the process my being becomes the instrument in which I seemingly “play” upon the paper with the instrument being the drawn artwork.

The song is an upbeat rhythm and not a heavy rock song with an impressive organ solo as well an electrical guitar solo.

                                            Peace Dream 

                                            43x48cm 

                                            Pastel on paper 2022


Arlene Rabinowitz©


 

 

 

 


Imprinted Seal Exhibition -"Sail" 2024

 


Title: Wooden Panel – "”Sail” הפלגה

60x82cm 2023

Pastel and acrylic glaze on board

Music: Apre’x Vous Band Deep Purple Instrumental version

Second drawing of the song “Apre’x Vous” by Deep Purple on wooden board brings to mind a boat on watery surface. Colours and vibrant hues create energy and a sense of movement that depict the sonic qualities of the song. The dynamic shapes and bold contrast give rise to rhythm and tone of the instruments.

This is a loosely translation of the song with pastels and clear gesso glaze on board and conveys the visual perception of the artist to the listening sessions of the song.

                                            Sail הפלגה

                                            60x82cm 2023

                                            Mixed Media (Pastel and clear gesso)


Arlene Rabinowitz© 2025



Arlene Rabinowitz: Email:yalinart@gmail.com

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