Painters - influenced by music

Paul Klee was a musician and painter and he explored music through some of his paintings
"After returning home, Klee painted his first pure abstract, In the Style of Kairouan (1914), composed of colored rectangles and a few circles.^[24] The colored rectangle became his basic building block, what some scholars associate with a musical note, which Klee combined with other colored blocks to create a color harmony analogous to a musical composition. His selection of a particular color palette emulates a musical key. Sometimes he uses complementary pairs of colors, and other times “dissonant” colors, again reflecting his connection with musicality" wikipedia









In the Style of Kairouan (1914)



Kandisnky was even more so influenced by music and during the bauhaus period(1922-33) is when his music influenced style started to evolve

"Geometrical elements took on increasing importance in his teaching as well as in his painting, particularly circle, half-circle, the angle, straight lines and curves. This period was a period of intense production. The freedom of which is characterised in each of his works by the treatment of planes rich in colors and magnificent gradations as in the painting Yellow – red – blue (1925), where Kandinsky shows his distance from constructivism and suprematism movements whose influence was increasing at this time."

Later on in the mid thirties he began to create pieces such as the one below called "Composition X, painted during WWII. (Kandinsky 1939)"















"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with the strings."