My painting "The Prophet Bird" 絵「予言の鳥」

My recent work.　最近の作品です。

More art works by Ai Mori : http://r.goope.jp/morinoie
Schumann "The Prophet Bird" piano Alfred Cortot.

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[paulprocopolis]

I really like the sense of magic and fantasy that you have in this painting - a great match for Schumann's musical imagination. There is another very fine painting called 'The Prophet Bird' by Victor Vasnetsov, painted in 1897 which you might like to check out if you don't already know it. By the way, do you know what a 'prophet bird' actually is? ... a bird that prophesies??

[morinoroba]

@paulprocopolis Glad you liked it! I checked "The Prophet Bird", it was nice and unique that human head on the bird's body, somehow this also remainds me of firebird though colours are darker. Yes when I head "prophet bird" I imagened that a bird prophesies through their language, but I didn't imagine a human head on a bird's body :-)! But I don't understand German language, so I wonder what is Schumann's intention on this piece exactly...

[Changles]

This is a beautiful painting. It reminds me of Goethe's "Der Erlkonig"; although the subject matter is different, the style is very similar to what I picture when I read the poem,

[morinoroba]

@Changles Thank you :-) It's interesting that you remember "Der Erlkonig" by this painting!

[Changles]

@morinoroba Possibly because of the common Romantic thread? I just picture woods like these, and a child like this one, when I read the poem.

[morinoroba]

@Changles I've read that Schumann composed this waldszenen inspired by one of works of german romantic poet Joseph von Eichendorff, and also that generally German people have longing feeling or fantasy to the wood they say. Goethe's Der Erlkonig is also german poem(though not romantic style as Eichendorff or Schumann), so I guess there is something secret in German spirit that their enthusiastic attitude to the wood, and maybe this is the thing three of them have in common...!

[Changles]

@morinoroba Yes, they are all wood-lovers. I would say you have a feeling for the woods too, given your positively Teutonic rendering of them.

[morinoroba]

@suzettegm Glad you enjoyed it :-)

[suzettegm]

Very nice with those subdued colours!

[morinoroba]

@scherzo009 コメントありがとうございます。