Art that reminds you of certain pieces of music...

[Sid]

Here's a thread for posting artworks that remind you of certain pieces of music.

Please post the artist & name of the work if you have it (as well as the image) & the piece/s of music it reminds you of.

Here's a few of mine. Looking at my selections, I'm a pretty big fan of landscape art & string quartets! They go together for me, it seems...

Artist: Carl-W. Rohrig
Title: Der Weg ("The Way")
This artist's works remind me of Beethoven's late string quartets, in terms of sublime imagery treated in a fragmented way.



Artist: John Constable
Title: Landscape Ploughing Scene
This artist's paintings reminds me of Tippett's string quartets, particularly the ending of the 3rd - again a sense of the sublime, but also looking down on a landscape from above, as if you were flying in the air from above. It's also significant that Constable came from Suffolk & painted that landscape & Tippett also grew up in the area.



Artist: Bill Henson
Title: Untitled 1994/95
This photographer's dark and somewhat violent images remind me of Brett Dean's music. Both are Australian, so I suppose that's a commonality. But the darkness & angst of some of Dean's music, such as the string quartet "Eclipse," has a perfect correspondence in some of Henson's landscapes (perhaps not the naked youths - which caused controversy a few years back - but definitely the backdrops of the Australian bush & cityscapes). There's also a sense of psychological fragmentation & dislocation in both - not wanting to get too arty farty, but that's how I can put it best...

[Lethevich]

I can't narrow it down beyond artist, but I persist in 'feeling' Turner during Bruckner's quieter moments. It's almost silly, but I think it's the warmth and absolute conviction in each artist's creations that connects them - Bruckner's unwavering innovation concealed in a heroic/Romantic framework, and Turner's confident deconstruction of the Arcadian landscape - both create such tranquil, un-neurotic work on the most part, but can also utilise their technique to create vistas of almost outrageous energy and power. Langgaard also conjures up quite vivid Van Gogh moods - especially VG's night-time paintings.

[Mr. Darcy]

This is an interesting question. The more I think about it, the more I come to realize how much I'm influenced by album art. For example, the work of Klimt always makes me think of Mahler (or R. Strauss). Moreover, I find that it generally works the other way with me: Music "reminds" me of art. Whichever way you ask the questions, however, I'm afraid my associations are kind of dull and/or obvious. Bierstadt or Ansel Adams landscapes make me think of Copland. Late summer/autumn landscapes (much like Constable's Landscape Ploughing Scene ) remind me of Brahms' chamber music. Elliott Carter and Jasper Johns go together for me, as do Picasso and Stravinsky.

[ajlee]

When I see the 10 Hartmann paintings that inspired Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, I'm reminded of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

[mahler10th]

I see Bruckner in Bierstadt.

[mahler10th]

I see Pettersson in Grimshaw.

[Guido]

Oh my goodness that painting by Carl-W. Rohrig is bloody awful! How could you compare it to late Beethoven?!!

For some reason Feldman and Jackson Pollock often get put together, and whilst Feldman did write a piece for Pollock, and I see some similarities, Pollock seems like a much wilder, more energetic artist than Feldman.

[RJR]

When I see the 10 Hartmann paintings that inspired Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, I'm reminded of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

No kidding? Me too!

[PaulSC]

Oh my goodness that painting by Carl-W. Rohrig is bloody awful! How could you compare it to late Beethoven?!!

For some reason Feldman and Jackson Pollock often get put together, and whilst Feldman did write a piece for Pollock, and I see some similarities, Pollock seems like a much wilder, more energetic artist than Feldman.

Agreed. Feldman was close to many New York School painters, but his artistic sensibility is mainly close to Rothko, I'd say. (Of course the two are explicitly connected via Rothko Chapel.)

[PaulSC]

Here's a thread for posting artworks that remind you of certain pieces of music.

Please post the artist & name of the work if you have it (as well as the image) & the piece/s of music it reminds you of.

Here's a few of mine.

I admire the specificity of your choices. I can only offer a more general example: I strongly associate the violent eroticism of Egon Schiele with the intense pre-serial expressionist music of Schoenberg and Berg.