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Stuart Davis Swing Landscape

Stuart Davis — Swing Landscape

December 7, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892–June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his Jazz influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and […]

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Photography by Walker Evans

Aaron Copland

November 14, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

On this day in 1900, American composer Aaron Copland was born. Copland is remembered as the quintessential American composer who created music reflective of the spirit of the nation. Copland’s […]

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Songs about art
Barbara Psimas: Stairway to Heaven

Barbara Psimas — Stairway to Heaven

October 4, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

On this day in 1968 Led Zeppelin performed it’s first concert in England. The band went on to become one of the most popular acts in Rock history, selling over […]

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Art About Songs, Featured Artist, Videos
Ron Miyashiro: Neiro Trumpet

Ronnie Miyashiro — Niero Trumpet

January 25, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

Ronnie Miyashiro is a surrealist painter who has been influenced by Dali and Escher. His “Neiro” series combine that sensibility with a musical focus. (“Neiro” means “melody” in Japanese.) The […]

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Marc Schimsky Whirling Dancers, La Playa, Mexico

Marc Schimsky — Whirling Dancers

January 23, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

The basis of music is the rhythmic foundation on which the melody and harmony ride. It is what gives music motion and  it gives rise to dance. Marc Schimsky’s “Whirling […]

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Electromagnetic Sprectrum

The Electro-magnetic Spectrum

January 21, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

One of the reasons music and art are inherently related (after the main reason that they are both human controlled methods of communication capable of expressing ideas and emotions) is […]

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Technology and science
David Ellis: Skdubs Gold

David Ellis — Intersection of Music and Sculpture

January 19, 2014by Al Kratzer 1 Comment

Multi-media artist David Ellis has created installations of fantastic constructions that “produce analogue sequences in rhythm.”  Pictured above is a double bass boombox that contains two tube preamps, assorted high-end […]

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Featured Artist, sculpture
Pablo Picasso: The Old Guitarist

Pablo Picasso: The Old Guitarist

January 17, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

Possibly the most remarkable painting from Picasso’s “Blue Period” (1901 -1904) is the painting “The Old Guitarist” (1903). The painting depicts a blind beggar with his guitar and is known […]

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Musical Art History
Mira Aleksandra Stefanov: Debussy

Mira Aleksandra Stefanov — Debussy

January 15, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

Austrian artist Mira Aleksandra Stefanov is world renown for her dramatic paintings of the sea, but she also applies her style to capturing the drama of music. It is particularly well-suited […]

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Alan Flattmann Preservation Hall Brass Band

Alan Flattmann — Painting New Orleans

January 13, 2014by Al Kratzer Leave a comment

New Orleans native Alan Flattmann is a pastel Society of America Hall of Fame Honoree who captures the architecture and life of the French Quarter with a romantic flare and […]

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"Music has wonder, exaltation, honour, pomp, joy, sadness, elegance, energy, ennui, disappointment, majesty, reflection, hate, love and more.
Music is one of the greatest of the man-made things. Would that we could put the qualities of music into our paintings. For those of us who render well and try to get things right in our pictures, let's not forget the lessons of music. Fill your foregrounds with counterpoint and grace notes. Paint arpeggios into your distances. Let there be rhythm, harmony and melody in your compositions. For those of us who work and play with shapes, colours and textures, let there be concertos and symphonies. Ask what choirs might be brought into service. Let there be music."

-- from Robert Genn's letters


"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul."

-- Wassily Kandinsky


"A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence."

-- Leopold Stokowski


". . . I have always liked hot music. There's something wrong with any American who doesn't. But I never realized that it was influencing my work until one day I put on a favorite record and listened to it while I was looking at a painting I had just finished. Then I got a funny feeling. If I looked, or if I listened, there was no shifting of attention. It seemed to amount to the same thing--like twins, a kinship."

-- Stuart Davis


“Without music, life would be a mistake…. I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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