music (and art)

heres an interesting idea that i uncovered a little later on in Art Theory by Robert Williams.

quote Wassily Kandinsky: the various arts are in the process of drawing together, and are finding music, the most non- material of the arts, to be their best teacher.

this is interesting enough on its own. and deserves plenty of contemplation. but... i'll jus go for the breadth and relinquish the depth. ho hum. so now... relation to art! the visual one.. ahaha.

furthermore: music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone.

painting is related to music most evidently in the workings of color. like musical sound (oh ok, so theres unmusical sound. i guess there must be unpainterly pictures. cool.), color directly influences the soul. color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. the artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. 

quite a few years before, J. A. M. (i tink its funny his initials spell JAM when he's been accused of "flinging a pot of pain the public's face" with his um.. aesthetic painting? tink in context of Wilde- art for art's sake.

well in context, "Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick and choose... as the musician gathers his notes and forms his chords until he brings forth from chaos some glorious harmony. to say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the palyer that he may sit on the piano." of course in this case, he's trying to say that Nature is useless, too. maybe like Baudelaire. wow.

well the bk itself is pretty heavy. so if i even understand half of it, and retain half of tt, i tink im pretty well off. and of course organizing thoughts is useful... on a sidenote, i cant say im gd at either music nor painting. sad.