Slide 1 - 'Votive Picture: Umbrian School' (oil and tempera on panel) attributed to Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, commonly known as Raphael, circa 1490-1500. Painting depicts a woman in bed restored to health by a vision of the Virgin Mary.
Slides 2/3 - Tom Phillips 'After Raphael (?)' (c.1972 oil, pencil, chalk on canvas) The drawing and painting are displayed as a diptych. Slide 3 being recognizable (partially) as cover art for 'Another Green World' Brian Eno.
Slide 4 - Eno's album art displays three figures proportionally spaced, one outside the window, conversing with another one inside, while the third looks on, observing (1975).
Eno & Phillips have a long collaborative history that began at the Ipswich Art School in 1964 when Eno was a student and Phillips a tutor.
"One is making a kind of music in the way that one might make a garden. One is carefully finding seeds, carefully planting them and then letting them have their life. And that life isn’t necessarily exactly what you’d envisaged for them. It’s characteristic of the kind of work that I do that I’m really not aware of how the final result is going to look or sound. So in fact, I’m deliberately constructing systems that will put me in the same position as any other member of the audience. I want to be surprised by it as well. And indeed, I often am." Eno
I would encourage anyone, familiar or not with this album, to read about the process Eno used to create this music and give it the full headphone treatment.
Fun fact : The year was 1977, Bowie and Iggy Pop moved to Europe to kick a nasty cocaine addiction while Eno produced Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, Bowie produced Iggy Pop's album, "The Idiot".
Slides 2/3 - Tom Phillips 'After Raphael (?)' (c.1972 oil, pencil, chalk on canvas) The drawing and painting are displayed as a diptych. Slide 3 being recognizable (partially) as cover art for 'Another Green World' Brian Eno.
Slide 4 - Eno's album art displays three figures proportionally spaced, one outside the window, conversing with another one inside, while the third looks on, observing (1975).
Eno & Phillips have a long collaborative history that began at the Ipswich Art School in 1964 when Eno was a student and Phillips a tutor.
"One is making a kind of music in the way that one might make a garden. One is carefully finding seeds, carefully planting them and then letting them have their life. And that life isn’t necessarily exactly what you’d envisaged for them. It’s characteristic of the kind of work that I do that I’m really not aware of how the final result is going to look or sound. So in fact, I’m deliberately constructing systems that will put me in the same position as any other member of the audience. I want to be surprised by it as well. And indeed, I often am." Eno
I would encourage anyone, familiar or not with this album, to read about the process Eno used to create this music and give it the full headphone treatment.
Fun fact : The year was 1977, Bowie and Iggy Pop moved to Europe to kick a nasty cocaine addiction while Eno produced Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, Bowie produced Iggy Pop's album, "The Idiot".
