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Category Archives: Visual art

Music is Sound and Silence

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 15, 2021 by oscarNovember 27, 2021

November 2021 Oscar van Dillen’s small book Music is Sound and Silence appeared with Donemus Publishing. The book contains a brief biography, an artistic statement, as well as a description of selected works. The book is illustrated and contains two additional original pencil drawings by the composer. “My teachers …
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Posted in Biographical, Composition, Drawings, Music | Tagged composer, oscar van dillen

Circles of scales collection

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 15, 2016 by oscarNovember 10, 2021

***page currently under development*** Structures of scales In the program of the minor World music composition in practice there is a module where scales are studied, especially from North India. As this minor has the aim to incite and inspire students to create their own compositions, their own music, …
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Posted in Composition, Drawings, Music theory | Tagged composition, drawing, modal music, music philosophy, music theory, scales, visual art, world music composition

Codarts mediatheque desk design

Oscar van Dillen Posted on February 10, 2015 by oscarMay 15, 2018

In 2013 Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam redesigned its mediatheque and commissioned me to add a desk design. My solution to the design was an abstract drawing, greatly enlarged in super high resolution (29630×16000 pixels) to be applied to the semi-round desk corner. The abstract objects in the …
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Posted in Codarts, Visual art | Tagged codarts, design, drawing, pen drawing

Exhibition Surface to Space

Oscar van Dillen Posted on August 23, 2013 by oscarApril 24, 2016

NOW: Exhibition SURFACE TO SPACE at Galerie Kunstliefde in Utrecht Saturday 24 August – 15 September 2013, where I present a part of my new series Urbistics: 5 pen drawings in ink on paper, and 7 brush drawings in oil paint on canvas. This new series of visual works …
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Posted in Brush drawings, Paintings, Pen drawings, Visual art | Tagged drawing, exhibition, painting, pen drawing, visual art

Babel alphabet 1993

Oscar van Dillen Posted on March 2, 2013 by oscarApril 10, 2018

The Babel Alphabet was painted in the Spring of 1993. The alphabet paintings were first exhibited in Den Haag later the same year, together with an installation by Isaak Goldschneider, also on the theme Babel. Isaak Goldschneider created a composition called BABEL as well, which was performed by Rocco …
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Posted in Paintings | Tagged painting, visual art

Organic Forms of Concurrence 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on January 6, 2013 by oscarMarch 29, 2015

These Organic Forms of Concurrence were drawn in the summer of 2012, outdoor in Normandy at the seaside (in Houlgate, Honfleur and Mesnil-Val). Since this was a windy environment, some minor blurs occurred when the paper was blown upwards against my brush, so be it. They consist of a …
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Posted in Drawings | Tagged brush drawing, drawing, visual art

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