Music Painters
Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1916.She was put to death in Auschwitz in 1942. Charlotte said hers were ”paintings out of a musically colored mood. The painting came out of the same melody. The picture actually came out of the melody. A fiery current stirs his nerves – which is understandable when you realize this picture originated with the tune.”
Bunker Hill: This is the first of the reels I painted in this series. Part one top third, part two middle third with the GCEC staccato. Part three lower third. In this painting I had to work out tone duration. That first D resounds for a long time.
Paul Klee taught at the Bauhaus School. Klee was an accomplished violinist. His Fugue in Red is a painting of a passage of Bach’s music.
”Music was the one discipline of art above all others that inspired Klee to profound insight. Music showed him the ‘innermost essence’ of nature, not a reproduction of it. This led music to be the mediator between the world of appearance and the artist’s efforts to fathom the laws of the universe.”
Duchting, Painting Music, 1997
Wassily Kandinsky taught at the Bauhaus school in Germany from 1922 until its closure by the Reich in 1933. Kandinsky taught painting music and abstract composition.
The Girl Who Broke My Heart, reel
Part one starts upper right, part two “ladders” progressing from left to right, a bit of part two in miniature. When I play the reel “The Girl Who Broke My Heart” you can hear the arguments leading to the breakup, doors slamming, tires squealing (or is that the cat hasn’t been fed in two days?)
