Aldo Forte created Impressionist Prints: Six Masters in Two Galleries, using artworks by 6 of the greatest impressionists. Each painting captures a particular idea within Impressionism. He opens with Monet’s work in London. Monet’s 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise, was the

Arts Inspired by Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) was born the year Mozart died and became the link between Mozart and Wagner in his operatic works. He took French grand opera to new heights, and his success came

Inspirations Behind Darius Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur le toit At the heart of Darius Milhaud‘s 15-minute ballet, Le boeuf sur le toit, was his trip to South America in 1919. Returning to Paris, he and his friends got together to

Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (1907–1989) took the art world of the 20th century and changed it forever. Starting with his studies of Impressionism, he progressed to Cubism and the avant-garde movements, creating worlds of new imagination. His art may have

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