Music for Painting
So having searched far and wide across the internet I came across this french painter and film maker Fernand Leger. His paintings are characterised by the use of really bright colours through his own realisation of cubism. His critics are said to have often referred to his work as ‘Tubism’ due to his heavy use of cylinders and tube like figures.
The following piece is the painting I have chosen (The Railway Crossing) as the use of bright colours should allow me to make some interesting and clear musical connections. I also see alot of possibility in the form of the painting as in my eyes most of the shapes point towards the bottom in the middle which could help give my piece a clear sense of form, possibly all leading towards one very low frequency. These are just preliminary ideas, but either way, heres the painting:
