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Article: The colour of music
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- New Statesman
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- November 5, 2007
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The dissonance and abstraction of 20th-century composers influenced a generation of visual artists, writes Sholto Byrnes
In the early years of the 20th century, artists were straining at the boundaries of figurative style, pushing and distorting the purely representational to the borders of abstraction with cubism and expressionism, developing ways of using colour with primitivism, and eventually moving into entirely new structures that bore little relation to formal, conventional modes of painting.
At the same time, the carapace of tonalism in classical music was beginning to crumble. The orchestra had expanded to enormous, virtually unmanageable, proportions by the late 19th century with ...