Street Singers 1925

This colorful print of street singers was made by Claude Flight, but we don't know exactly when. Just look at those shapes and colors! I like to imagine Flight in the studio, maybe he was listening to music while he was making it. The two figures at the center of the image become a visual harmony. They have a certain rhythm to them like notes on a page. The pale yellows and reds create a warm but faded feeling, like the memory of music. The printmaking process would have been quite physical and required a deep understanding of materials. You know, the colors are laid down one by one, and each layer interacts with the others, right? The image might have been inspired by the Futurist artists and their desire to capture movement. It all makes me wonder about the fleeting, ephemeral nature of sound and experience, and how artists like Flight try to capture that in a still image. There is something both simple and so complex about it.