Dorothy Dehner

at Levis Fine Art

Untitled

Dance party. It's dark. People are seen in the flashes of background light. You don't see them moving continuously, but as in a stop frame video. You not only hear the music, you feel it. Everything is vibrating with the rhythm.You feel somehow connected to other people in the room. You all are one in the dance.

Mark Francis

at Kerlin Gallery (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Hadron, 2012

The black circles are the musical notes, sounds. Together they create a delicate network of melody(black lines). The subtle net of music grabs you, extracts feelings from you. It compresses the feelings(blue, white bands) into a wall of spirit. The wall is the foundation of your mood and your behavior. The delicate sounds of music create magic.

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Robert Delaunay

Rhythm, 1912

The rhythm is created bu separate sounds, nevertheless they obey certain laws and rules(the left pane). The timing between the sounds is what distinguish the music from a cacophony. But the timing is the delay between sounds, but the delay is the silence. So the silence defines the music. From another perspective the rhythm influences you. It creates a mood for you(yellow-blue art in the upper left corner of the right pane that creates yellow-blue-red-green-blue-black circle in the upper right corner). Those taps can go deep into your memory to bring up some things from the past(the green arc in lower left corner of the right pane, red-yellow-blue arc from the center to lower right corner).

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Juan Gris

Guitar and Pipe, 1913

The guitar is a simple object. Nothing special. You are sitting in a cafe, smoking a pipe. The pipe brings you into a philosophical mood. Then you hear the magical sounds of a guitar. It creates a mystery from vibrating air(the black guitar silhouette). It changes your plain white reality into much more deep colorful being. Together with the philosophical mood, it makes you think about art. You start drawing a new draft of your new art project.

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Georges Braque

Still Life with grapes and clarinet

A table on the patio. Green grapes in a vase. Clarinet is playing in the background. You remember your trip to Tuscany. Vineyards. Small villages. Green hills. Bright sun. The contrast between the sunny side and shades. Blue skies. White (yellowish) wine in a glass. Grapes look like notes that you hear from clarinet (black circles on white background). The music takes you to Italy and back in a matter of seconds.

Otavio Schipper

Otavio Schipper at Anita Schwarz Galeria De Arte (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Serie Diapasões / Diapason Series

This is Love.The blue fiddle bow is playing music on an amorphous body of pink innocence, red desire and blue hope. The music is feeding the main body. The bow itself is part of this body. And the bow is not exactly a bow, it is a tuning fork.It lets you to correct yourself  according to your love and hopes.The separate small figure in the right bottom corner is two circles interconnected symbolizing two persons in love.