Conversations between music and painting in the museum: a love beyond art

Conversations between music and painting in the museum: a love beyond art

Conversations between music and painting in the museum: a love beyond art

Beethoven describes como music “la revelation más alta”; For Mozart era el arte “the most sublime, the most emotive and the most mysterious”; And Nietzsche wrote the sentence “without it, life would be wrong”.

Painting has also been described as a transformer of art, for Horacio it is a “wordless poem”, for Leonardo da Vinci it is a “muda poetry”. Both disciplines appeal to the senses and, as the language suggests, their effects are comparable: Colors vibrate like guitar strings.

El embrujo trasciende, An initiative of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza In collaboration with Amazon Music, in the form of a guided tour of several photographs from the Pinacoteca, he demonstrated the connection between the two disciplines last weekend. Todos los cuadros included in the tour remain in the pinacoteca.

“The relationship between painting and music is undoubtedly strong and fascinating. In visual art, music is represented not only through instruments or musicians, but also in composition, in the rhythm of shapes and colors, en la vibración de la luz y. en las textures que mean maybe music evokes emotions. It makes the sound of the reflection of the colorit resonates with the viewer, and in this sense the painting becomes a complete sensory experience, almost mystical,” explains Carolina Fabregas, the Museum's Director of Marketing and Business Development.

El cubismo de Picasso brings jazz to life.
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“Muchos se preguntaron qué arte era superior: la musica or la paintura; las vanguardias decidieron que la musici”, Pepa Mateos, guía del museum, orientarnos for orientarnos for antes de orientarnos for iineraria que pone and dialogue. A few years ago, the museum held a course on the presence of music in painting from the 13th century to the end of the 20th century. “En el siglo XX, the presence of music in painting is very important”, Add an expert.

El recorrido empieza con Vista de la Ópera y del Unter den LindenBerlin (1845), where the Opera (now Staatsoper) theater of the German capital is represented. “Until then, people helped with the work by turning on the lights while talking. Wagner abó con eso y aunó la vista y el oído”, Explanation Mateos, en referencia al nacimiento de la work total: scenographía, vestuario, música… to integrate.

Georges Braque also understands pictorial music.
Colección S&P Traboulsi © Georges Braque, VEGAP, Madrid, 2016

The influences that mark the painting affect the music as well. Monet was inspired by him ukiyo-e japones para dismontar la perspectiva clásica en El deshielo en Vétheuil (1880), a work that invites us to observe from our own perspective, like the views of Mount Fuji.

Along with Debussy and later Satie, there is the most beautiful music of the Far East. Paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Demuresan que, hacia finales del siglo XIX, la music había de jado de ser exclusiva de la aristocracia. In 1893, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed Paris cabaret star Yvette Guilbert when he commissioned the cover of a music magazine. “Música se vuelve popular; la bourguesía la consume. Una revolución”, Mateos commented.

En Metropolis (1916-1917) de George GroszLos colores empiezan a tener una not musicale, but he vuelve sinéstésica because you vuelve sinéstésica because the abstraction of artists like Kandinsky, Kupka and Hilma and Klint is not sick. “Kandinsky y Kupka hacen composiciones musicales en sus pinturas,” explains Mateos.

The inventors of Cubism, Braque and Picasso, disrupted harmony and natural perspective. “El cubismo es como el jazz, música syncopada,” notes Mateos. El flamenco, al igual que otras músicas populares, is claimed by 27 Generations y el surrealism.

El recorrido termina con From the plains (1954), say Georgia O'Keeffe, queen sostenía que la tierra tiene su propia música y que su ritmo debe explorarse en la pintura.

Last Friday, November 8, in addition to the guided tour, a social film was shown at the Pinacoteca with the singer Angeles Toledano (Villanueva de la Reina, Jaén, 29 years old). You can casually practice flamenco: cuando era niña, adoraba Antes muerta que sencilla, de María Isabel, pero al ir recuperar el disco a la casa de sus abuelos donde se había dejado olvidado, no lo entente y cogió otro al azar. It was a compilation with Juanito Valderrama, Pastora Pavón, Manuel Vallejo and Nina de la Puebla. In 2004 there is a solo delicious film to be charmed with flamenco: 150 euros, translation for media granadina Los Campanilleros.

Andalucian artist who renewed flamenco in his debut Sucia (published last September 27) and a lively commentary in which the lyrics talk about witches or menstruation There is no sin (Amazon Music Original), is Amaral's version. También cantó dos poemas de Sangre sucia, Eres guapa and Nocturna manzanay cerró con Como aman los pobresde Gata Cattana, en homenaje a las victimas de la DANA. A way to wait for International Flamenco Day (November 16).

“El flamenco roza lo efable y tiene algo de místico. Así como el flamenco posee un 'duende' que envuelve al oyente, la intención de esta proposal es que los cuadros transmitan una energía similar, que hagan sentir sumosfuersy. . Because music is life and each piece in the museum has its own rhythm that dialogues with the power of each element. The Museum's Director of Marketing and Business Development Carolina Fabregas concluded.