The Sound of Painting

by Maur, Karin Von

• ISBN13: 9783791320823
• ISBN10: 3791320823
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Prestel Pub

Summary

Painters and musicians have always found inspiration by sharing ideas from both disciplines. How this relationship developed from Philipp Otto Runge's "compositions" in painting to Jean Tinguely's and Niki de Saint Phalle's musical sculptures is the focus of this illustrated volume. Carefully selected images and quotations from composers and artists are blended into a study useful to scholars of art history and music, and fascinating to the general reader.

Author Biography

Karin v. Maur is Acting Director and Curator of Modern Art at the Slaatsgalerie Stuttgart.

Table of Contents

The Sound of Painting	p. 7
Runge's Vision of a Synthesis of Art and Music	p. 10
Wagner and Synesthesia	p. 12
Musical Imagery: Gauguin and Matisse	p. 19
The Painter-Composer Ciurlionis	p. 24
Kandinsky and Schoenberg	p. 30
Harmony and Dissonance	p. 38
"Forms of Time" in Painting	p. 43
The Chromatics of Light and the Rhythm of the Cosmos	p. 46
From Sequential Image to Film Sequence	p. 54
Infusing the Pictorial Space with Musicality and Dynamics	p. 60
Noise Sculpture and Pictorial Choreography	p. 68
Synesthetic Investigations of the Russian Vanguard	p. 78
Music in Colored Light and Harmonia Mundi	p. 83
Dance Analogies and "Absolute Rhythm"	p. 94
The Serial Principle and Transformed Material	p. 102
The Intermedia Synthesis	p. 110
Graphic Music	p. 114
Plastic Sound	p. 121
Notes	p. 126
Index	p. 127
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