Gideon Polya
One Day Pathétique
One Day Pathétique (1.3 x 2.9 metres) is painted on doubly primed canvas in acrylic. The geometrical scaffolding is double Golden Rectangle between upper and lower strips as in Pablo PIcasso's "Guernica", this being superimposed upon a Mediaeval . Muslim TiIe Art pattern (e.g. as in the Alhambra, Spain). Using naked female forms the painting reveals a joyful hopeful, dawn to night, "one day in the life of Pyotr Tchaikovsky" interpretation of his so-called Pathétique Symphony number 6 (he died several weeks after its first performance). Tchaikovsky was very happy with this symphony and the "one day" interpretation explains why - from the dreamy awaking in the morning to the gentle slide into sleep at the end of a happy day spent in Russian forests and meadows.
The nude female figures make a nice variation to the intrinsically .blob-and-line elements of Jackson Pollock's abstract expressionism. For detailed description and discussion of the "One Day Pathétique” painting see Gideon Polya, ““One Day Pathétique” Symphony Painting. HOPE – Best Renewables Now Cost Same as Coal Power”. For details of related paintings by Gideon Polya see "Art for Peace, Planet, Mother & Child": sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/home .
I chanced upon the One Day" interpretation of Tchaikovsky's last Symphony number 6, the so-called Pathétique Symphony, while listening to the music as the sun rose over the beautiful Yarra River Valley, Meobourne, Australia. The soft opening was consitent with gentle awakrening and the memorable close when you struggle to hear thelast note was accordingly gently going off to sleep after a lovely day. - and in between the music variously describes sweeping grasslands, noon-day brilliance, the travails of our daily activities, late afternoon shadows, the brilliance of the stars ...
This optimistic interpretation has been used to garner optimism for our World threatened by man-made global warming. The technical solutions are already available - all that is lacking to save Humanity and the bIosphere is political will (see "Climate Crisis Facts & Required actions" c/- the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group : sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/clima....
Thus Climate Emergency Actions URGENTLY Required are:
1. Change of societal philosophy to one of scientific risk management and biological sustainability with complete cessation of species extinctions and zero tolerance for lying.
2. Urgent reduction of atmospheric CO2 to a safe level of about 300 ppm as recommended by leading climate and biological scientists.
3. Rapid switch to the best non-carbon and renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, wave, tide and hydro options that are currently roughly the same market cost as coal-based power, and indeed much cheaper than the true cost, of coal burning-based power ) and to energy efficiency, public transport, needs-based production, re-afforestation and return of carbon as biochar to soils coupled with correspondingly rapid cessation of fossil fuel burning, deforestation, methanogenic livestock production and population growth (the latter cessations being driven by Carbon Taxes that demand payment from polluters of the real cost of GHG pollution).
For a recent expert and optimistic statement by top US climate scientist Professor James Hansen (Columbia University, NASA's GISS) see “It’s possible to avert the climate crisis”, Countercurrents, 29 November 2009: www.countercurrents.org ./hansen291109.htm .
One Day Pathétique
One Day Pathétique (1.3 x 2.9 metres) is painted on doubly primed canvas in acrylic. The geometrical scaffolding is double Golden Rectangle between upper and lower strips as in Pablo PIcasso's "Guernica", this being superimposed upon a Mediaeval . Muslim TiIe Art pattern (e.g. as in the Alhambra, Spain). Using naked female forms the painting reveals a joyful hopeful, dawn to night, "one day in the life of Pyotr Tchaikovsky" interpretation of his so-called Pathétique Symphony number 6 (he died several weeks after its first performance). Tchaikovsky was very happy with this symphony and the "one day" interpretation explains why - from the dreamy awaking in the morning to the gentle slide into sleep at the end of a happy day spent in Russian forests and meadows.
The nude female figures make a nice variation to the intrinsically .blob-and-line elements of Jackson Pollock's abstract expressionism. For detailed description and discussion of the "One Day Pathétique” painting see Gideon Polya, ““One Day Pathétique” Symphony Painting. HOPE – Best Renewables Now Cost Same as Coal Power”. For details of related paintings by Gideon Polya see "Art for Peace, Planet, Mother & Child": sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/home .
I chanced upon the One Day" interpretation of Tchaikovsky's last Symphony number 6, the so-called Pathétique Symphony, while listening to the music as the sun rose over the beautiful Yarra River Valley, Meobourne, Australia. The soft opening was consitent with gentle awakrening and the memorable close when you struggle to hear thelast note was accordingly gently going off to sleep after a lovely day. - and in between the music variously describes sweeping grasslands, noon-day brilliance, the travails of our daily activities, late afternoon shadows, the brilliance of the stars ...
This optimistic interpretation has been used to garner optimism for our World threatened by man-made global warming. The technical solutions are already available - all that is lacking to save Humanity and the bIosphere is political will (see "Climate Crisis Facts & Required actions" c/- the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group : sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/clima....
Thus Climate Emergency Actions URGENTLY Required are:
1. Change of societal philosophy to one of scientific risk management and biological sustainability with complete cessation of species extinctions and zero tolerance for lying.
2. Urgent reduction of atmospheric CO2 to a safe level of about 300 ppm as recommended by leading climate and biological scientists.
3. Rapid switch to the best non-carbon and renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, wave, tide and hydro options that are currently roughly the same market cost as coal-based power, and indeed much cheaper than the true cost, of coal burning-based power ) and to energy efficiency, public transport, needs-based production, re-afforestation and return of carbon as biochar to soils coupled with correspondingly rapid cessation of fossil fuel burning, deforestation, methanogenic livestock production and population growth (the latter cessations being driven by Carbon Taxes that demand payment from polluters of the real cost of GHG pollution).
For a recent expert and optimistic statement by top US climate scientist Professor James Hansen (Columbia University, NASA's GISS) see “It’s possible to avert the climate crisis”, Countercurrents, 29 November 2009: www.countercurrents.org ./hansen291109.htm .