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2. The Musicians – Caravaggio. 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.
- 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.
- De sterrennacht (The Starry Night) – Vincent Van Gogh. The night sky was somewhat of a growing theme for Vincent Van Gogh in the late 1880s, and his paintings Cafe Terrace at Night and Starry Night over the Rhone both show hints of what is to come in this, one of his most famous paintings.
- Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of Grand Jatte) – Georges-Pierre Seurat. This famous painting is a prime example of Seurat’s technique of Pointillism, which is an offshoot of Impressionism that uses simple dots of varying color grouped together in such a way so as to form a discernable image.
- Die Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead) – Arnold Böcklin. There are actually multiple versions of this work, but all generally show the same scene of a lonely island with a grove of cypress trees, and a small rowboat carrying forth a coffin and a mourning figure in white.
- Illustrations of Viktor Hartmann. Though these particular illustrations may not be among the most famous of artworks on their own, their eventual by-product in Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition certainly is.
Dec 16, 2023 · Art and music, both powerful forms of expression, often find themselves entwined in a harmonious dance that transcends the boundaries of their respective mediums. In this exploration, we delve into five famous paintings inspired by music, where the strokes on canvas echo the melodies that have stirred the souls of artists across different eras.
- 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.
Nov 15, 2017 · Chagall’s love for Bach and Mozart was well known, and his collaborations through classical music are legendary: he created the New York City Ballet’s Firebird scenery and costumes (the costumes are still in use, 68 years later!), costumes for Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe at the Paris Opera, 1959, the ceiling painting of the Paris Opera House and the famous Met Opera’s Lincoln Center ...
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Sep 29, 2020 · As well as being inspired by music, van Gogh was the very muse for a touching folk song 81 years after his death. Vincent van Gogh’s love of painting and fragile life was the inspiration for Don McLean’s 1971 song Vincent. McLean said he was inspired to write the song after reading a biography of van Gogh. The song is beautiful and sad and ...
