Exhibition Invitation: Visions of Music
I know many readers enjoy drawing portraits of their favorite musicians, and often the artworks you've shared in our gallery and forums have a musical quality, whether realistic or abstract. So here's a terrific opportunity to put some of your work on 'bricks and mortar' gallery walls.
The Renaissance Gallery, in Huntington, W.Va., invites submissions to its First Annual Spring Art Exhibition, 'Visions of Music', to be held in April, 2008. The Renaissance Gallery is a small artist co-op which draws its members from the surrounding tri-state area of western West Virginia, southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky. Submissions to be brought or shipped to the Gallery March 15-30, 2008. All work must have a musical theme or relate to music and/or musicians. The show is open to all artists 18 years old.
The gallery is open to new and experimental art (but not copier reproductions), as well as traditional mediums. Artwork must be the original and have been completed in the last year. For information, you can contact the gallery during regular business hours, Wednesday through Saturday 12-4 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm, or e-mail gallerywv@yahoo.com For a prospectus, send a self-address stamp envelope to: The Renaissance Art Gallery, 900 Eighth Street, Suite 20, Huntington, WV 25701
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Comments
Unless the artists’ close, personal friends happen to be musicians, I would venture a guess that most of the “original” work you are displaying is based on copyrighted photographs. Unless permission -or,at least,acknowledgment- is given to these photographers, you are participating in an unauthorized theft.
It is just as wrong to steal the work of an artist in another media as it would be for another person to pass off your work as his/her original product.
Witt, you are correct, up to a point. If people are drawing portraits of musicians, they need to ensure that these are public domain images, and credit the photographer appropriately; if an image is not in the public domain, they need to seek permission to use it.
Unfortunately there are many myths propogated about copyright, as I have addressed in my article on the issue.
http://drawsketch.about.com/cs/resources/a/copyright.htm
Of course, you can create an image about music without doing a portrait of a musician. Many abstract works have a strongly musical quality; or perhaps you might create a scene or landscape inspired by Respighi’s ‘Pines of Rome’ or Sibelius’s ‘Finlandia’.
Actually, most of the images will indeed be original. There are a lot of musicians and musical schools about. Also many of the artists are themselves musicians, so, no. Few of the works will be based on any copyrighted material. You underestimate artists