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Piano Concerto no.2 op.18Rachmaninoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOi...
Autumn Rhythm
Jackson Pollock
Violin Concerto in A Minor Vivaldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPba-...
Composition VII
Wassily Kandinsky
Alright, I'm back. I just listened to another meditation. I don't have it here to post but I will post the painting that I think it represents.
Triptych Bleu I, II, III
Joan Miro
The background blue is the rushing water with random notes played with a flute or strings or another instrument.
Have an imagination! Someone want to try this?
In sixth grade the art teacher did this exercise with us. I had no idea what to do. She played some classical music to which we were supposed to draw.I am clueless on this subject.
Really? Well I’m not quite sure how else to explain it... I’ll try to think about that, Geoffrey.
Maybe it would help to think about how some music would be used in a TV show or a movie, then think about some art that has the same idea.An example would be the end of "The William Tell Overture" which was used for the Lone Ranger theme. Frederic Remington's "A Dash for the Timber" would have the same feeling. The music gives the sensation of a chase on horseback.
William Tell Overture/Lone Ranger theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9lf7...
Remington:
http://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/...
Some music with dissonance could be matched up to Cubist art.
Calm music--Chopin, Brahms--could be matched up with a painting of a still lake mirroring the scenery.
For tragic music with lots of bass, think about paintings with dark thunder clouds.
I like your choices, Heather. I've always loved "The Moonlight Sonata".
Excellent, Connie!! Wow! You said it perfectly! That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Yes, there you have it, I have no need to add more! Thank you for your compliment on my choices. 😊 Does anyone want to try this now? Nobody will judge your choices, there is no right or wrong here.
I’ll explain mine a little. For the Jackson Pollock, I see his drip paintings as being really busy and not too much form. Of course Rachmaninov has form but his work is so seemingly all over the place! That’s why I chose that piece for that painting. When you first listen to the song, it starts out with a few notes then her fingers are almost a blur on the keys.
The Mondrain seems very straight and orderly, the short, smaller boxes seem like staccatos. It’s easy to follow, simple to look at. I feel Mozart Sonata in C is the same way. (Maybe I’m biased because I play it on the piano) but it’s simple, very straightforward, moves along easily, and pleasant to hear. (Or look at as in the painting)
The Vivaldi is another ‘busy’ one. I put it with a beautiful Kandinsky. The Kandinsky is ‘busy’ but I love the colors and the busiest parts aren’t spread throughout the whole painting stretched across the canvas. Personally, I like this painting a lot better than the Jackson Pollock I posted above it, though I do enjoy Vivaldi and Rachmaninov. Maybe my choice is due to, I like Vivaldi better and Kandinsky better so I put those two together. I think ‘they’ sound beautiful.
I found that the music I listened to had to be put with abstract paintings, BUT the example Connie used also gave a good idea for other types of paintings, too. Let’s see what you come up with!
My third grade teacher did that listen and draw thing with us. All I remember is that, in her opinion, I got it wrong and didn't correctly interpret whatever it was that she thought the music illustrated. But this certainly reminds me of Andre Gide's novel "The Pastoral Symphony" which we read in French class my sophomore or junior year. In the story a blind girl lives with a minister and his family and at some point the minister tries to explain colors in terms of instruments in the orchestra.
Hmmmm.
That’s interesting...I’ve heard of someone trying to teach a blind person colors in terms of temperature. Or at least hot, cold, tepid, etc.
I thought of another one, maybe this will help?
"Isle of the Dead
Arnold Bocklin
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZ...
Yes it was! And that’s a good example, too! Are we getting the idea?
I often thought it would be nice to have music when I was teaching Art History . But then, of course, they couldn’t have heard me lecturing.
I have often used music in teaching art history. I like a recording of "Una furtiva lagrima" from "L'Elisir d'amore" when teaching early Picasso and discussing his self-presentation as Harlequin.I have invoked Bob Dylan's "Times They are a-Changin'" for American midcentury art.
Even though Ruth thought about the conflict of music and lecture, I sometimes put together little videos that combined music, images and very brief bits of text.
Great fun.
So I looked at some abstract paintings and tried to think of different musical pieces and these are what I came up with. What do you think? Do you have any songs that you would associate with a piece of artwork?