Modern Art Sampler
Arnold Schoenberg
– High priest of musical modernism. Schoenberg invented the 12 tone
composition technique which basically produces music that sounds like a bunch of racket to the
uninitiated because it’s never in a key. Here is the great pianist Glen Gould and violinist Yehudi
Menuhin playing Schoenberg’s Fantasie Op.47. Bear it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmf4Z9HsnFQ
Wassily Kandinsky
– One of the first artists to produce purely abstract paintings. Kandinsky created,
from shapes, lines, and colors, “compositions” that bore little semblance to anything one would see in
the world. He believed painting and music to be similar and associated color with sound. Study this
painting, “Compositions VIII,” as you listen to the Schoenberg piece and try to detect similarities in the
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- Fall '07
- Laidlaw
- Writing, The Metamorphosis, Ulysses, Arnold Schoenberg, musical modernism. Schoenberg, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmf4Z9HsnFQ Wassily Kandinsky, abstract paintings. Kandinsky, Modern Art Sampler, violinist Yehudi Menuhin
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