Alfons Karl Zwicker: Vom Klang der Bilder In his cycle for large orchestra and solo piano, Of the Sound of Pictures (Von Klang der Bilder), the Swiss composer, pianist, and painter Alfons Karl Zwicker (b. 1952) chose 5 modern artists:

Johannes Maria Staud: Sydenham Music Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter who was born on the island of Saint Thomas in the then Danish West Indies. He was sent for education in France at age 12,

Flor Alpaerts: James Ensor Suite The Belgian artist and printmaker James Baron Ensor (1860–1949) left school at age 15 to start his artistic training and two years later entered the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. His early work was

Geoffrey Poole: Crossing Ohashi Bridge The travellers on the bridge hunch down under their small straw coverings – the rain is pouring down, catching them on the exposed walkway. Part of Hiroshige’s series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, which

Benet Casablancas: Four Darks in Red, After Rothko Although normally on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Mark Rothko’s 1958 Four Darks in Red was on loan to the Tate Modern in London when Catalan

Miloje Milojevic: Kameje (Cameos) Serbian composer Miloje Milojević (1884–1946), as one of the most significant Serbian composers of piano music, his contributions have pushed Serbian music to a new high. One of his most successful collections was Cameos: Impressions for

Combining Dutch precision with Flemish grandeur, the still-life paintings by Jan Davidz de Heem changed the world of painting. Taking the idea of pronkstileven (sumptuous still-life) as his mantra, de Heem produced pictures of enormous size. One that has recently

Kenneth Fuchs: Cloud Slant American artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) started appearing in American art galleries in the 1950s and continued her career for the next 60 years. Her field was abstract expressionism and her developments over her career changed modern