Inspirations Behind Carl Schimmel: The Alphabet Turn’d Posture Master, or The Comical Hotch Potch Acting out the alphabet is something we’ve all done, even if only the four letters of Y – M – C – A. In 1782, the

Inspirations Behind Vittorio Montalti’s Nu descendant un escalier French artists Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), along with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, developed the principles of Cubism and engendered great controversy with his 1912 painting Nu descendant un escalier n° 2 (Descending

Inspirations Behind Kenneth Fuchs’ Autumn Rhythm American painter Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was an abstract expressionist painter whose ‘drip’ or ‘poured-paint’ technique signalled a fundamental change in modern painting. Starting in 1947, Pollock’s new style started with a canvas on the

In writing these articles about the intersection of art and music, I find this is the first time the artist and the musician are the same. Chinese composer and artist Yang Bao (b. 1991) is based in New York and

Inspirations Behind Dan Welcher’s String Quartet No. 3, “Cassatt” American painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was born outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but made her career in France and was one of the few women in the Impressionist circle, joined by

Kandinsky is well-known for often being credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. A late starter in the world of painting — he began his studies at the age of thirty, he was as much a

Inspirations Behind Edward Gregson’s Le Jardin à Giverny In 1964, while a student at the Royal Academy of Music, British composer Edward Gregson composed a Romance for clarinet and piano, written for Robert Hill, then a fellow-student and later principal

Inspirations Behind Hans Werner Henze’s Los caprichos Francisco Goya’s disturbing vision of contemporary and supernatural society, Los Caprichos (The Caprices) are a set of 80 aquatints and etchings produced by the artist between 1797 and 1798 and published as a