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 PointFranti�ek 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 Sch�nberg encouraged the development of his free, expressive style; and later in the century, jazz became a model for artistic improvisation in the work of Franti�ek Kupka, Alan Davie and others.
Eye-Music has been curated by Frances Guy, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.
This exhibition has been funded by Esm�e Fairbairn Foundation's Regional Museums Inititative (RMI), one of ten exhibitions taking place at twenty venues across the UK between 2004 and 2007.
