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- The Musicians (1597) by Caravaggio. The oil on canvas by the Italian master makes concrete on the pictorial support the vision of a pagan allegory, aimed to take shape in the likenesses of three young musicians dressed in the old-fashioned way, who find their place in a cramped environment.
- The Old Guitarist (1903) by Pablo Picasso. It is impossible to talk about the Old Blind Guitarist without referring to the blue period to which the masterpiece itself belongs, which can be traced back to a three-year time span from 1901 to 1904, and which is devoted to externalizing, through art, a profound grief that seized the artist, indelibly marked by the death of his friend Carlos Casagemas, a painter who committed suicide because of his unrequited love for the French model and dancer Germaine Pichot, the protagonist of many of Picasso's canvases.
- The Music Lesson (1662) by Jan Vermeer. Before analyzing the masterpiece dated 1662, it is worth explicating how music is a somewhat recurring theme in the work of Vermeer, a painter who interpreted this subject, one of the most iconic in Dutch Golden Age painting, within no fewer than twelve of the thirty-six works of art by his hand currently known.
- Music I (1895) Gustav Klimt. With Klimt we come to know a type of depiction of music, which, up to this point in the top 10, has been somewhat neglected, namely the allegorical one, rendered through the depiction of two main subjects: a woman holding a lyre and her counterpart, rendered in the guise of a sphinx painted on the right side of the stand, intended to represent that Egyptian mythological creature who, half-woman and half-lion, is able to unite in herself the polarity of the animal and spiritual worlds, as well as those of instinct and reason.
- The Music Lesson – Johannes Vermeer
- The Musicians – Caravaggio
- The Cellist – Amedeo Modigliani
- Orchestra Musicians – Edgar Degas
- The Wedding at Cana – Paolo Veronese
- El Jaleo – John Singer Sargent
- The Piano Lesson – Henri Matisse
- Three Musicians – Pablo Picasso
- The Fiddler – Marc Chagall
- Music – Henri Matisse
Johannes Vermeer’s work The Music Instruction, Woman Seated at a Virginal or A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman depicts a young female learner having a music lesson from a guy. The man’s mouth is slightly open, as if he’s singing along with the song that the little girl is playing. This implies a connection between the two personalities, as w...
The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), an Italian Baroque painter. It has been on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1952. In 1983, it received considerable repair throughout it’s lifetime. Caravaggio is said to have joined the household of Cardinal Franc...
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who mostly worked in France. He is best known for portraits and nudes in a contemporary style typified by a surreal elongation of features, necks, and bodies, as seen above in his painting The Cellist. These paintings and the style in which the were pa...
Orchestra Musicians is an 1872 artwork by Edgar Degas that was modified in 1874. This was initially a horizontal-format painting, with the musicians in the orchestra pit in the middle and the ballet dancers on the stage in the backdrop, with just the bottom half of their bodies visible. Degas subsequently shortened both edges of the canvas and expa...
The Wedding Feast at Cana (Nozze di Cana, 1563), by Paolo Veronese, is a figurative painting of the biblical tale of the Marriage at Cana, in which Jesus magically transforms water into red wine (John 2:1–11). The large-format (6.77 m 9.94 m) oil painting, executed in the late Renaissance Mannerist style (1520–1600), embodies the artistic goal of c...
El Jaleo is a giant John Singer Sargent artwork that depicts a Spanish Gypsy dancer dancing to the accompaniment of musicians. It was painted in 1882 and is now on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Sargent’s five-month voyage across Spain and North Africa in 1879 inspired the work, as did a smaller oil painting, The Spanish ...
The Piano Lesson displays Henri Matisse’s living room at Issy-les-Moulineaux, with his older son, Pierre, playing the piano, the artist’s sculpture Decorative Figure (1908), at bottom left, and his painting Woman on a High Stool, at top right. Matisse started with a realistic sketch, but as he worked, he removed detail, scraping down parts and recr...
Picasso’s title for two collage and oil pieces is Three Musicians. Both were completed in 1921 at Fontainebleau, near Paris, France, and are remarkable specimens of the Synthetic Cubist style. Each piece features a Harlequin, a Pierrot, and a monk, who are claimed to represent Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob, in that order. The Harleq...
Marc Chagall was a Belarusian-French artist who lived from 6 July 1887 to 28 March 1985. He was an early modernist who worked in a variety of creative mediums, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries, and fine art prints. The Fiddler by Marc Chagall is an oil work done in 1913 when the artis...
Henri Matisse created Music (La Musique) in 1910 as a wall-size painting. Sergei Shchukin commissioned the painting, which he displayed beside Matisse’s 1910 Dance on the stairway of his Moscow residence. Matisse created the painting without any previous studies, and as a result, the work is riddled with alterations. Matisse’s processes to get the ...
Jun 27, 2022 · These ten musicians, as well as being deeply gifted songwriters, performers, etcetera, are all talented painters. While their styles and themes may vary, all of them have used their art as an extension of their creative process in the world of music, crafting large bodies of work that, in some ways, offer us greater insight into their inner ...
- David Bowie. The late great David Bowie was not only a superstar musician, but also an actor and visual artist. Below is just one of his many self-portraits.
- Marilyn Manson. Though his music and overall aesthetic may not be for everyone, the singer’s visual art is worth a view. The watercolor painting below resembles Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his face on the US penny.
- Stevie Nicks. Upon hearing of her close friend’s leukemia diagnosis, Stevie Nicks created the painting below. Though her friend passed away not long after, Nicks has continued to inspire others with her visual artworks.
- Sir Paul McCartney. One-fourth of the wildly popular and famous British band, The Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney is known for his song lyrics and voice. But did you know that the knighted Sir McCartney is also a prolific painter and visual artist?
- John Lennon (Beatles) John Lennon - The Hug. Before setting the stage on fire as a Beatle, John Lennon had nurtured his love for visual arts during his three years of study at Liverpool College of Arts.
- Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan - Endless Highway. If you are to name a person whose creativity and talent are endless, it would definitely be Bob Dylan. He is a well-renowned musician, writer, poet, film director, and radio broadcaster.
- Paul Stanley (KISS) Paul Stanley - Portrait. KISS guitarist Paul Stanley is one of the most recognisable faces that you never saw in rock music (the band members always painted their faces).
- David Bowie. David Bowie - Portrait of Iggy Pop. David Bowie was not only a genius singer and songwriter, but also a prolific artist. His paintings ranging from dark and introspective to loose expressive portraits.
4 days ago · Planet Rock takes a look at 16 rock stars who are - or were - artists and enjoy painting, Featuring members of Pink Floyd, Nirvana, KISS and Bon Jovi.
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Nov 15, 2017 · Today, we decided to look at ten music-related visual ideas and paintings. 1: Fernand Khnopff: Listening to Schumann (1883) Listening to Schumann (1883) by Fernand Khnopff. Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (1858-1921), quite a handful of a name, was one of the great leaders of the Symbolist movement.
