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Article: MUSIC IS SOUL OF PAINTING.(Stars)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Byline: STEVEN KERN CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST
Around 1850, French art critics praised Camille Corot's landscapes for their poetry and musicality.
By the 1880s, Claude Monet agreed that there was a distinct relationship between the lyricism of his landscape paintings and music. Around 1900, Auguste Renoir hoped his paintings could move people the way music did and he wanted his red to "sound as clearly as a trumpet."
American expatriate artist James Abbot McNeill Whistler went so far as to title his paintings after musical forms, such as "symphony" or "nocturne." The relationship between painting and music is as old as both art forms, but their ...