MUSICAL TALES

MUSIC, SYNAESTHESIA AND PAINTING

How to make pictorial music or musical painting?
A music of rhythms and notes, a painting of forms and colors.

The musical tales are synesthetic representations of the music visualized by the artist while listening to it.
They are tributes to the musicians who have influenced the artist.
Thus, the range of colors and their rhythm are chosen according to the musical atmosphere represented.
All paintings are divided, horizontally, like one or several musical scores and, vertically, according to the rules of serial painting,
rules of concrete art using the terms of the Fibonacci series.
They are painted as one writes a musical score, from left to right and top to bottom.
After all the colors are placed, the rectangles which remain untouched are painted with a so called “resolution color”.
This color is obtained by mixing the colors used in proportions based on the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence, 1/2, 1/3, …
Resolution color represents musical silences.

 

All paintings are oil on canvas and all formats fall under the golden ratio or divine proportion and thus are homemade.

A tribute to Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"

Tribute to Miles “Kind of Blue”, 2020, 33×101 cm

"Tribute to Fela Anikulapo Kuti"

Tribute to Fela Anikulapo Kuti, 2022, 40×238 cm

"Autumn Variation", a musical painting for autumn

Autumn variation 2, 2021, 89×113 cm

"Winter Variation", a musical painting for winter

Winter variation 2, 2021, 89×113 cm

"Spring Variation", a musical painting for springtime

Spring variation 2, 2021, 89×113 cm

"Summer Variation", a musical painting for summertime

Summer variation 2, 2021, 89×113 cm

Tribute to Miles Davis, study for Bitches Brew

Tribute to Miles (study for Bitches Brew), 2017, 33×101 cm

Tribute to Miles Davis "Bitches Brew"

Tribute to Miles “Bitches Brew”, 2020, 33×101 cm

A musical painting of spring, of March.

March music, 2017, 33×101 cm, sold

Autumn dance

Autumn dance, 2018, 45×90 cm

Reggae fun

Reggae fun, 2015, 89×113 cm

March dance

March dance, 2016, 79×120 cm

A serial subrealist reggae painted with fluorescent pigments in natural light.

Subrealistic serial reggae, 2004, 40×238 cm
fluorescent pigments in natural light

A serial subrealist reggae painted with fluorescent pigments in fluorescent light.

Subrealistic serial reggae, 2004, 40×238 cm
fluorescent pigments in ultraviolet light

Color partition, the four seasons blues

Four seasons blues, 2004, 33×101 cm, sold

Color partition for a country blues.

Country blues, 2004, 33×101 cm, sold

The color blue paints the blues.

Blue blues, 2004, 33×101 cm, sold

A blues in painting.

Musical tale 1, 2001, 40×238 cm, sold

Painting the blues.

Musical tale 2, 2001, 40×238 cm, sold

Synesthetic image of Robert Johnson's blues.

Tribute to Robert Johnson, 2001
100×127 cm, sold

Synesthetic image of Jimi Hendrix's music.

Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, 2001
100×127 cm, sold

Synesthetic image of Janis Joplin's music.

Tribute to Janis Joplin, 2001
100×127 cm, sold

1st painting with the idea of using the golden ratio and painting music.

Golden rhythm, 1995, 35×45 cm, sold

A music from the cosmos, a slice of the galaxy.

Cosmic music, 2001, 100×127 cm

Study painted to illustrate Jimi Hendrix's music.

Pop music, 2001, 100×127 cm