"Perhaps best known is Wassily Kandinsky, whose abstract paintings were his experience of seeing music in colour, line and form. His 1911 work Impression III (Concert) was inspired by a concert in Munich at which he heard the music of Arnold Schoenberg, and while the painting has some representational elements, its vivid wash of yellow describes sound itself. Kandinsky wrote on the subject with a spiritual fervour: “Colour is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposely sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.”
Credit given to:
Holly Williams
21 October 2014
BBC.com
And this..is the heart to which I create my pieces...
I was told that there is a name for this...
Synesthesia...yes it is a thing...Basically...if you hear a sound..it translates to colour...and vice versa...
An example is that most would think of the colour of tears would be clear or blue...
But a with synesthesia...it for me is red..because red is pain...
and depending of the origin of the tears... (happy..sad etc) then the colour varies...
Deep grief would be portrayed as dark maroon or black...
red a simple heart ache...etc...
Synesthesia is very instinctual..rarely is a piece planned...I only need to know I want to create art and that is my plan.
At this point I use music to help me find my way...and to direct me to where I need to go on my canvas...
It disciplines the rawness of emotions.. it is sorted and blended in this way.
and puts it in a temporary "box"..
This is removed piece by piece...emotion by emotion...colour by colour..
Then arranged on canvas to create art...
With music to guide my thoughts and emotions...
All three can be seemlessly tied together.
Sometimes it is simply based on the music itself..a decade in life.
I created 'Free Love" by listening to music from the 60's.
I love the happy carefreeness of that time..and the wonder of liberation.
The New and Different.
Todays times are so dark...I find myself wanting to learn about people of past decades..and to place myself in that time...
Hence the traveling to another place and also a time!
Art for me is a constant searching...if you ever find what you have searched for...then you have not found it!
What does this mean...? at the risk of sounding too poetic...and romantic...
It is a love affair...
It is a relationship....a feeling...an emotion...a journey.
If it is not part of that which is human..then it a part of that which is humanity.
Mostly...art is to the eye as music is to the ear.
I had a friend who was a quadriplegic....
He could not travel far...in body
But in his mind...he could travel anywhere he wanted to go!
I love abstract...surrealism..fauvism..expressionism.
These types of art have no rules...not constraints.
The sky is the limit..and the best part is that there is no one there to tell you it is “wrong'
As in incorrect...and you can "go" where you choose!
yes there are certain boundaries...technical things in the execusion of the piece...but in my art...It is mostly freedom of emotion.
In art..to truly create..it must be free...the imagination is infinite...
We as humans are unique to animals in the fact we can create art and music...
How sad for them!
This is my artistic journey...
That which makes my art me...
Ann Marie...
artist