Dynamic Tones All Around You Analysis

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Dynamic Tones, All around You
Henry D. Lui
Elise Archias and Blake Stimson, TA: Deepthi Murali
AH 100: Introduction to Art and Art History

November 10, 2015

The artist of the artwork Quiet Gray with Red Reverberations #2, 2014 is painted by Jennie C. Jones. She is an American Artist in Brooklyn. Work described by Ken Johnson as minimalism with tribute to diverse genres of music from the 1960s. Associated, with the suppression and mute to today’s date and age, it is a tribute to both genres of music. Recipient of the 2012 Joyce Alexander Wien Prize, honored for commitment and innovation (1). It is an anticipated translation from the artist of musical elements into a physical form and mental image, offering a sense
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The artist pursues to carry the physical and mental forms of musical elements to the day and age from the 1960s. It was what artists and audiences had intended and desired with what Jones and society demands today. The work is serving audiences in different date of age, hinting contrasting interpretations and understandings. The iconographic argument always depends upon amassing historical information to modernize these interpretations for the market. Within pursuing to expand the artist’s importance in graphic counts, “it’s the representation of music through the use of visual symbols outside the realm of traditional music notation (Jones)”. In what the artist illustrates is what the artist wants the people to grasp, her own “geometric listening”, and a mutual, sympathetic understanding between the two. Jones wanted people to observe the music, the characteristic that was desirable because of it. It is something distinct, foreign to the conventional notation. A new form to be perceptive of, discerning to, sensitive about and responsive for, a new form of music and art to date. Jones needs the audiences to discern how her music, her art, cannot be neither classified nor defined at a single day and age, but throughout time, the divergent audience. Equivalently, to the audience and their taste, what they favored. It has always been what the audiences …show more content…
At any mark in time, the audience is presented before them a type of art. The art always appeal to the audience because of its time, because of what the audience preferred in that point of time, it is what the artist had intended. Different points in time correlate to different appreciation, yet it does not imply causation for the motive of affection. However, Jones’s work and art carry the physical and mental forms of musical elements to the day and age from the 1960s. It is essentially carrying over what people had preferred and imposing on it an adaptation. So, the audience of today would still prefer it as much as the audience did so in the 1960s. It can be also described as an altered form of art or simply a new form of art. Thus, the adjustment is in materials for a suppressed to mute sound, the minimalistic ideology, and the transcendence of art and sound connected altogether because of the present-day in art and music changing by time. It has always been what the audience had desired, something more and something different. The artists simply openly take out of what is inside them and present it before them. Hence, as time passes on, artists would always take out something more, something different that would be