Painters and musicians have always found inspiration by sharing ideas from both disciplines. Carefully selected images and quotations from composers and artists are blended into a ground-breaking study.

The Sound of Painting

Runge's Vision of a Synthesis of Art and Music

Wagner and Synesthesia

Musical Imagery: Gauguin and Matisse

The Painter-Composer Ciurlionis

Kandinsky and Schoenberg

Harmony and Dissonance

"Forms of Time" in Painting

The Chromatics of Light and the Rhythm of the Cosmos

From Sequential Image to Film Sequence

Infusing the Pictorial Space with Musicality and Dynamics

Noise Sculpture and Pictorial Choreography

Synesthetic Investigations of the Russian Vanguard

Music in Colored Light and Harmonia Mundi

Dance Analogies and "Absolute Rhythm"

The Serial Principle and Transformed Material

The Intermedia Synthesis

Graphic Music

Plastic Sound