Friday, December 17, 2010

Arvind Poswal Transplant Reviews



Paul Klee, In the style of Bach , 1919
Bach: the dance of colors
figures and architecture in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach

You take a few sheets of squared paper, pencils and / or markers of different colors, different thin stripes. It should be noted with some care a score of Johann Sebastian Bach germinate and little by little the architecture of his music. The interplay of different forms of geometry will gradually stretching out into space, revealing its dynamics allayed and ornament. The charm of the structure of the flowers and surprises.

This simple and even trivial finding was the occasion for an inventive way with a class of students engaged in "adult" of an art school Turin.



notes arranged on staves, notes issued by Bach's music, known processed by the eye and by his students .

The workshop concluded with a final "stage" in which my reading of Bach on the piano is integrated with an improvisation painting an audience of students between observing and listening.











Computer graphic



original page from The Art of Fugue











The objective was unlikely to produce "works of art." It was, as far as possible, move our minds nearby universe sound of Bach, derive enjoyment and sensory extension.
What Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee mentioned here will forgive us:
Vasily Kandinsky, Dual tone brown, 1924






My fixation with Bach has been strengthened with the work W. Mellers, Bach and the Dance of God, London: Faber and Faber, 1980, those HLHolborn, Bach and Pietism , Clarencourt, 1979, with the Kabbalistic and Pythagorean background, with HE. Dentler, The Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach , Skira, Milan, 2000, with inventions "numerology", K. van Houten, M. Kasbergen, Bach et le Nombre , Mardaga, Liège, 1992 or M Radulescu, The organ works of Bach, Orgel-Büchlein, Turris, Cremona, 1991, Dujka Smoje, Color of Bach's Music: Farbsymphonien in Jakob Weder's Painting in Music in Art, XXIX/1-2 (2004)

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