{"id":4084,"date":"2023-03-10T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T10:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xarxa.museunacional.cat\/una-rapsodia-visual\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:10:32","slug":"una-rapsodia-visual","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xarxa.museunacional.cat\/en\/una-rapsodia-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visual Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Visual Rhapsody<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Virtual exhibition for XMAC
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Curator: Montse Frisach<\/span><\/h4>\n

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\u201cWith few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist’s soul in musical sound\u201d, said Wassily Kandinsky, the artist who, at the outbreak of the great Avant-Garde revolution at the beginning of the 20th century, best knew how to relate music and the visual arts. Whether or not Kandinsky was synaesthetic matters little; the Russian theorised on the sound quality of colours and shapes as no one had before.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Music and the visual arts have always gone hand in hand. Artists have created an entire imaginary of music. In religious works, they filled scenes with musician and singing angels but, as the creators were usually all friends, they also depicted musicians and dancers who are, in essence, the musicians who use their bodies to play and draw in the air. Other visual works do not explicitly mention music and sound but they lie within.<\/span><\/h4>\n

This itinerary, which takes a look at thirty works of art from the collections of the museums that are part of XMAC (Art Museum Network of Catalonia), is a journey in the form of a rhapsody in which the visitor can freely discover the concomitances between art and music. It is an unorthodox and timeless journey that borrows the concept of rhapsody from the world of music to illustrate a certain structure that visual artists also often work with.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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A visual rhapsody with diverse rhythms<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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A rhapsody is characterised as being a musical composition formed by different, apparently unrelated and loosely connected fragments. The different parts of the piece can even contrast greatly: a dramatic part followed by a joyful one; a fast part followed by a slow one… Diverse rhythms and emotions in a single piece, although there is always a fine line that connects them, however subtle it may be. There are always echoes and resonances. The result of this union of pieces tends to have a highly emotional component, it very easily strikes a chord. For this reason, rhapsodies tend to be successful pieces, as is the case of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin or the famous Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.<\/span><\/h4>\n

The structure in the form of rhapsody also serves to mark the internal rhythm of the exhibition. Also, as it is a virtual exhibition and visitors need not walk through a physical space, they can easily \u201cjump\u201d from one artwork to another. However, like music, enjoying art live is a satisfying and enriching experience. For this reason, we also invite you to visit the works of art at the different museums.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Celestial Music Versus Apocalyptic Music<\/h2>\n

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If we were to believe the iconography of thousands of mediaeval works with their musician angels, Christian heaven is the music lovers\u2019 paradise. So, if you love music you had better behave in this life because apparently, Christian heaven is where the most exalted sounds can be found. The huge jam sessions among resident angels and the souls of the greatest musicians of human history must be legendary. For mediaeval artists, major divine and human events were announced or threatened by the music of supernatural beings, just in case the music created by humans incited sinful acts. Thus, when music touches our soul, we still define it as \u201cheavenly music\u201d. It seems that at the most complicated and bloody moments, such as the Last Judgement or the Passion, music can also be heard, although in this case, it is a soundtrack similar to that of a horror movie.<\/h4>\n

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