"The world resonates": With these three words Kandinsky suggested the model of music as the main programmatic basis for the development of abstract painting; the idea that music is the reference for all artistic creation, and that a painting can be a visual representation of a musical composition.
The correspondence between music and painting is the axis of the exhibition Musical Analogies jointly organised by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Fundación Caja Madrid and will be on viewin two different venues in Madrid, the Museum's own exhibition rooms and the Casa de las Alhajas.
The project is curated by Javier Arnaldo, chief associate curator of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, and has a scholarly committee comprising Tomàs Llorens, chief conservator of the Museum, Christian Meyer, director of the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, and Mr Arnaldo. The exhibition aims to demonstrate the active role of the musical model in painting, focusing on a specific period between 1910 and 1920, the years that saw the development of abstract art. To illustrate how the different means by which the idea of synesthesia (meaning the correspondence between different sensory perceptions such as, in the case of music and painting, hearing and sight) gave rise to abstract art, the exhibition includes the work of a varied group of artists. All were contemporaries of Wassily Kandinsky, the key figure for abstraction due to the quality and influence of his work.
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