Carioca 1934
- Artist:
- Type: Drawing
- Medium: Pastel
- Production Date: 1934
- Description: Chalk drawing of Carioca (Brazilian music). From a series of drawings drawn in 1934 in which McLaren attempted to visualize various musical styles including Hungarian folk music, a military march, ‘oriental music by a Turkish orchestra‘ and ‘hot dance music.‘
These pastels all date from McLaren‘s teens, prior to art school.
'I remember hearing Hungarian gypsy music for the first time, which struck me as so strange. It reminded me of waves, water dripping and I was terribly moved and excited.
I‘d lie back on the couch. And as I shut my eyes, I saw the play and dance of forms. Music can do all kinds of things- there‘s a tempo which can be low or fast or can accelerate, decelerate, it can pianissimo or fortissimo and I could visualise the equivalent of these things. Things could skip and leap about joyfully or they could drag themselves tragically around or they could twirl and swirl - do all kinds of thing. There‘s a whole lot of adjectives that you can apply to music and you can apply to movement of shapes and forms in an abstract film. Some of the pieces of music I heard excited me so much I wanted to express them visually'. Norman McLaren - Dimensions: Mounted drawing: 80cm (H) x 55cm (W). Unmounted 54.5cm (H) x 47cm (W)
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Library Archive
- Related Material: AC/AF/M/6
- Accession Number: 2012.22
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
