Not instruments, music notes, or musicians......but what sound looks like? ......did you match moods of the song to certain colors or lines?
If you have,..how did you paint something you couldn't see?
2007-04-14 17:00:42 · 9 answers · asked by Stony 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Yes, and I did "see" it, in my mind as shape and color. Each instrument has a different shape and a different chroma, value, or hue. I find that the tempo of the music comes through (visually) the strongest. I have also painted the sounds of children running in and out of the house...the laughter, the feet running, the squeak and slam of the screen door, etc... I clear my mind and just look at my canvas and paint on it what I see in my head.
2007-04-14 18:20:29 · answer #1 · answered by tigerbychild 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Directly or indirectly? Music often seeps into my paintings because I usually play personal favorites while I paint, as I'm sure many artists do. And at least subconsciously it effects the outcome. It certainly reflects the tone, the mood, of the art. And artists paint what they can't see all the time when they are conveying emotions. Music is emotions with chromatic scale.
It could be Beethoven's glorious 9th. or Leonard Cohen or Pink Floyd.
Directly, I've tried several times to incorporate music as a theme in my work. Here is an example:
http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/0000c7sd/g2
I tried to convey music as a life fiber with a life of it's own.
In this second painting try to image God using music and it's corresponding colors as an artist's pallet to add the finishing to life's greatest creation, the Earth.
http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/000250ch/g16
Perhaps I failed to do music and it's influence to art justice or perhaps not. But this is how I tried to pay homage to music.
2007-04-14 18:55:35 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is the actual term for what you are asking about: "synesthesia."
You might want to research synesthesia to get a better understanding of how you can connect your senses and create works of art. (meaning, painting the flow of music.)
I know this didn't really answer your question on how to do it, but with some online research (even try an image search on google) you can find some fantastic examples and web pages with descriptions of how various artists created these works.
Have I ever tried it? No. Sorry, I haven't. Not yet. In any event, I wish you luck on your adventure!
2007-04-14 19:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by Surreal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people like Salvador or Picasso have tried to express the music on a canvas. Music maybe dark purple squares, red circles or green rhombus. I have tried to paint music's feelings but it demands to have fantasy and faith in painting and in realization of impossible...You must me talking about Synesthesia. What is synesthesia?
Synesthesia (or synaesthesia) is loosely defined as "senses coming together," which is just a translation of the Greek (etymology: syn - together, esthesia from aesthesis - sensation). At its simplest level, synesthesia means that when a certain sense or part of a sense is activated, another unrelated sense or part of a sense is activated concurrently. For example, when someone hears a sound, he or she immediately sees a color or shape in his or her "mind's eye." People that have synesthesia are called synesthetes. to top
2007-04-15 00:20:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I think quite a few people have tried to paint the spirit or feeling of music.
My favorite is Wassily Kandinsky. He named many of his art works "compositions" or "Improvisations," names for musical pieces rather than paintings because he was painting music.
Kandinsky painted music, but one of my favorite interpretations is the beginning of "Fantastia," where they animate music. I don't know if you can rent "Fantastia" or find pieces of it to download through uTube, but the animation is truly spectacular. Still some of the best, beautiful and intelligent animation to ever be produced.
2007-04-14 17:06:58 · answer #5 · answered by Orrianne 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the folks who did disneys fantasia movie did a pretty descent job. I used to hear and feel colors when I would paint on acid. Try closing your eyes and shutting your mouth and you might just get lucky. Your welcome pooter.
2007-04-15 17:44:09 · answer #6 · answered by Scobot13 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get Disneys Fantasia for starters!
2007-04-14 17:33:41 · answer #7 · answered by Faerie loue 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, an artist named Phillip Schreibman does just that! :) http://www.paintingmusic.com/
I've never personally tried it, but now that you've mentioned it, it would be fun and interesting... so I might have to. :)
2007-04-14 17:08:19 · answer #8 · answered by Jherek 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
kandinsky , picasso , matisse
2007-04-16 09:33:46 · answer #9 · answered by BarbieC1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋