Eye-Music: Kandinsky, Klee and all that Jazz
2nd Oct 2007 - 9th Dec 2007
Searching for a new visual language at the beginning of the 20th century, many artists were inspired by musical forms and ideas in their early experiments in abstract art.
 VioletWassily Kandinsky |
 Study for Around a PointFrantišek Kupka |
 Project for a cover for 'Vogue', work no. 443Sonia Delaunay |
Paul Klee took the fugues of Bach as the model for his multi-layered paintings; Wassily Kandinsky's friendship with the avant-garde composer Schönberg encouraged the development of his free, expressive style; and later in the century, jazz became a model for artistic improvisation in the work of František Kupka, Alan Davie and others.
Eye-Music has been curated by Frances Guy, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.
This exhibition has been funded by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation's Regional Museums Inititative (RMI), one of ten exhibitions taking place at twenty venues across the UK between 2004 and 2007.
