Rick Bartow
Origin of Song 4, 2009
drypoint on handmade mitsumata paper
image 5 1/4 x 4 in
paper 11 x 10 in
paper 11 x 10 in
Edition of 16 plus 2 artist's proofs
BAR2240
$ 600.00
Published at Moon & Dog Press, Tokyo / South Beach. Former Froelick Gallery employee, Wilder Schmaltz emailed to writer/collector Edd Guarino on 4/22/21: In 'Origin of Song,' Rick is going...
Published at Moon & Dog Press, Tokyo / South Beach.
Former Froelick Gallery employee, Wilder Schmaltz emailed to writer/collector Edd Guarino on 4/22/21: In "Origin of Song," Rick is going back much further than any recognized or remembered composer, but to the true origin of musical expression, both in an anthropological, human-made sense and as it appears in various myths, as the bird suggests. (I believe there is a Hopi story, for example, that involves a First Song that brings about the beginning of all life). Rick was deeply fascinated with the emergence of art, depictive as well as imaginative, as made by early humans, and he may have been thinking along similar lines, though in musical terms, here.
Former Froelick Gallery employee, Wilder Schmaltz emailed to writer/collector Edd Guarino on 4/22/21: In "Origin of Song," Rick is going back much further than any recognized or remembered composer, but to the true origin of musical expression, both in an anthropological, human-made sense and as it appears in various myths, as the bird suggests. (I believe there is a Hopi story, for example, that involves a First Song that brings about the beginning of all life). Rick was deeply fascinated with the emergence of art, depictive as well as imaginative, as made by early humans, and he may have been thinking along similar lines, though in musical terms, here.