Passing Time with Klee: Demonstrating Temporality in Visual Art
Paul Klee was a “musical” painter, not least because he chose the violin and bow before the brush and easel. Klee’s father was a music teacher...
Craig Wakerley 30 April 2022
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Circus and Jazz of Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a French artist famous for his use of color. The Circus (below) is a color stencil piece from Matisse’s book...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 30 April 2022
Tormented Lovers, Sumptuous Players – Guitarists in Art
Musical instruments have always had a particular significance in paintings. Throughout the history of depicting music-making in art, the iconography...
Alina Manevskaya 30 April 2022
Music and Art: Tanto Bravura!
Music and art have long been closely tied together, each taking inspiration from the other (for better or for worse). Some remarkable music has been...
Sarah Mills 30 April 2022
The Story of Velvet Underground & Nico Album Cover by Andy Warhol
Today we will be talking about Andy Warhol and his famous banana cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico, the debut album by the Velvet...
Zuzanna Stańska 15 April 2022
Florence Welch – Perfect Model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
We all know Florence Welch, the leader of indie-rock band Florence + The Machine. And if you don’t, I suggest you find her cosmic music right now...
Elizaveta Ermakova 16 March 2022
Liberty Leading the People: Delacroix, French Revolution, and Coldplay
Liberty Leading the People is probably the best-known artwork of one of the greatest artists of French Romanticism Eugène Delacroix. The painting,...
Rute Ferreira 26 January 2022
This Looks out of Tune? Finding Dissonance in Kandinsky’s Paintings
Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky painted some of the most beautiful pieces of art in a style that is instantly recognizable. The flurry of lines,...
Craig Wakerley 16 December 2021
Album Covers You Didn’t Know that Are Pure Art
Every serious music fan will recognize the merits of the following albums for the developments in the history of contemporary music. But…...
Magda Michalska 16 January 2021
Top 10 Statues of Famous Musicians
There are good, bad and ugly statues of the musical greats. Let’s take a look at ten sculptures of famous musicians, old and contemporary, that...
Candy Bedworth 16 January 2021
The Sound of Colour: Music Inspired by Visual Art – Top 10
Visual art has inspired songs from many different musical genres from classical to heavy metal, from opera to old crooners, from musicals to hip hop.
Candy Bedworth 15 January 2021
Wagnerism in Art: Painting Music or Listening to Pictures
What is Wagnerism? There are perhaps no other cultural movements in the world that we have named after one person. Wagnerism was admiration for...
Alina Manevskaya 14 January 2021
