Inspirations Behind Anna Clyne’s Abstractions The suite Abstractions (2016) uses the works of five contemporary abstract artists to create an image of art today. The works were all in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art and came from

Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm Inspires Composer Camille Pépin American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) created Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) in his studio in Springs, New York, working with an unprimed canvas on the ground while he poured and scattered paint on

Inspirations Behind Simon Holt’s a book of colours – No. 1. duendecitos The three grotesques are at their meal, cups and bread ready. But these are Goya’s vision of the clergy of his day: rapacious and demanding, full of false

Between 1617 and 1621, the English writer Robert Fludd (1574–1637) produced his Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, metaphysica, physica, atque technica Historia (The metaphysical, physical, and technical history of the two worlds, namely the greater and the lesser). Fludd

Inspirations Behind Edward Gregson’s 3 Matisse Impressions In his 1997 updating of his 1993 work for recorder and piano, British composer Edward Gregson (b. 1945) expanded performing forces to recorder and chamber orchestra. In his Three Matisse Impressions, Gregson gives

Inspirations Behind Tracy Silverman’s Between the Kiss and the Chaos Created initially as music for five scenes from a puppet opera, composer and electric violinist Tracy Silverman combined the idea of creation in the arts with his ideas of how

Eric Montalbetti’s Trio Inspired by Suprematism, Orphism, and Futurism French composer Eric Montalbetti (b. 1968) designed his Trio for violin, cello, and piano around three modernist artistic styles: Suprematism, Orphism, and Futurism. Suprematism was developed by the Soviet artist Kazimir

The Nightingale Collaboration Even though they were contemporaries, Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) and Henri Matisse (1869–1954) are rarely regarded together. In 1925, however, the two collaborated on a project for the Ballets Russes on a ballet version of Stravinsky’s first opera,