Music—intangible, abstract, and deeply emotive—has long been a guiding force for modern artists. 'The Music of Art' explores how visual artists in the twentieth century responded to music not just as subject matter, but as a structural and philosophical model for painting and sculpture. Featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Juan Gris, Raoul Dufy, Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, Georges Braque, and Alberto Burri, this exhibition brings together artists who translated sound into form, rhythm into composition, and harmony into colour. Curated by the renowned musician Eve, the exhibition highlights the enduring dialogue between musical and visual abstraction....
Music—intangible, abstract, and deeply emotive—has long been a guiding force for modern artists. 'The Music of Art' explores how visual artists in the twentieth century responded to music not just as subject matter, but as a structural and philosophical model for painting and sculpture. Featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Juan Gris, Raoul Dufy, Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, Georges Braque, and Alberto Burri, this exhibition brings together artists who translated sound into form, rhythm into composition, and harmony into colour.
Curated by the renowned musician Eve, the exhibition highlights the enduring dialogue between musical and visual abstraction. For Kandinsky, music was a direct inspiration—he equated colour with timbre and line with melody. Miró’s playful compositions echo the improvisation of jazz, while Calder’s mobiles bring rhythm into three dimensions, creating a choreography of suspended motion.
Braque, a trained musician, returned to musical motifs throughout his life. His 1937 'La Pianiste' is a masterwork of texture and counterpoint, while earlier Cubist works like 'Guitare et journal' (1918) collapse space and fragment form, evoking the syncopated structures of music. Juan Gris’ 'Le joueur de guitare' transforms the Harlequin into a modern icon, combining geometric order with lyrical elegance.
Bringing together artists who each approached the idea of music from unique perspectives—across Cubism, Surrealism, Dada, abstraction, and Arte Povera—'The Music of Art' suggests that the link between sound and sight is not metaphorical, but deeply structural. It is a dialogue that shaped some of the twentieth century’s most enduring innovations in modern art.
