For my concept I choose love and passion. Love, according to the dictionary is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. I didn’t choose it because it has a meaning to me but I choose it because sometime in your life you will love someone. My parents for example almost got divorced last year because of complicated reasons I can’t share. In the end they realized that they were better off together and trying to work on the problems. This to me is an example of true love. They have been married for almost twenty years now.
The things I’ve seen around me have influenced me to pick love and passion as my concept. When I see two older people holding hands it makes me think of love because you know they have been together for many years. I feel that people use the word love way to often and even when they don’t mean it. Just because you like someone doesn’t mean you love them. When I think of teenage relationship I feel that we say I love you because we think that’s what we are suppose to do. After seeing the movie The Notebook, I realized she really did love him and not matter what happened she always went back to him.
Love and passion is a popular topic in composers work. There are many songwriters who are influenced by love and passion. Some examples are Kelly Clarkson “A Moment Like This”, Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love you”, and Journey” Open Arms”. I also found some artists named Marlene Dumas and Vincent van Gogh who have painted about love and passion.
