Tuesday 16 April 2013

Music and the Visual Arts

Music and the visual arts always had a strong conection. The relashionship has allways been there we rarely live in silence. For most of us we have a soundtrack to our own lives. We allways visualise, and both are creative forms. No coincidence that musicians came from art collages.

Movement isn't just visual. Music and the visual arts go beyond the material go beyond the physical culture of our world. In each movement in culture music and art change too.

The Renaissance dominated Italy, was named after a rebirth of triangle structure and tripads. Renassance means Re-birth and marked the end of the medieval period or the dark Ages in European History and heralded the beginnign of an extrontrodonairy cultural upheaval in Art, science and technilogy influenced in the Classical Worked of Ancient Greece and Rome. Between 1430 to the late 1620s, Greek Philosopher Plato Dikat belived that words were more important than instruments playing. Thus music was more compossed for singing, this was also interrpreted in a different maner to make the music sound lke words, birds or animal sounds. The musical portryal of the poetic words used was called word-painting, and it made for pleasant listening.
Baroque Drama emotion overtones
Classical the era about order and symmetry
Romantic romanticism human experience how we can be frightened, find beauty, notes were longer to express emotion JMW turner speed 1844

Moderisms and the Avant Garde - Pepedu Paris Exhebition, this is the time when artists started to become fasinated with the idea of being able to hear colours and see sound

The Language of abstraction - 1910s and 20s - Artist Kandisky attempted to make this iamge look like it was moving to jazz music impresionism was the idea that abstraction was using colours to express which is just like how Jazz would have been made, "impression 3 is a homage to shonenberg these guys are demonstrating how movement can be seen.

Synesthesia- meaning sensation in greek




Fulerist was obsessed with moving image
Dadaist also experimented
Marcel Duchamp made music by picking notes at random out of a bag. Hans Ritcher -Orchestration der tabre abtract relates to abtract sound. some intresting happening chance brings amazing oppotunities le tetour a la raison -see here the imoirtant of moving light Avont Garde Moderinism.

Mid Twentish Century POP ART
Peter blake self Portrait 1961 and Jan Haworth - the beatles designers working with Sault Bass Astract Imergry and type Imergry and sounds.

Yves Klein painting ceremony 1960 Performance art
Gilbert and george singing scultpturec
Bruce Naumen Acoustic Pressure Peiece 1971

John Cage 4 minutes and 33 seconds