Norah Jones in performance
One of a series of paintings about singers and players . . .
This is a portrait of Norah Jones in concert, around 2007 or so. Ms Jones is a popular
jazz singer, pianist and likey everything else_ist given her muscial family (her dad is Ravi
Shankar). Her full name is Norah Jones Shankar.
I am not a music expert, and can only attempt good musical rationale on what I like
or don't like. So to say that I enjoy some of Ms Jones' stuff — especially her live
sounds — does not at all explain why I like some AC-DC, or all of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
Suite. I just do, whether they use arpegiated intos or dropped minor fifths, or just
play all the guitar strings open and loudly . . .
The painting shows the effects of high intensity stage lighting that tends to wash out
the features of the performers. That's why theatre performers put on what was called
Texas Mud (in my day), a dark coloured makeup goop that helps you to appear a
so-called normal colour under the lights. Also, one can
avhieve really bizarre effects using coloured lighting as any band with a travelling light show (and retina-burned fans) know very well.
Ivories
Acrylic on canvasboard, 22 x 24 in (2009)
Please do not reproduce the images in this display.
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