Inspiration can come in many forms, from literature, nature, world events and the visual arts. This week on Exploring Music, it’s the pictures that inspired the music from Renaissance masters to modernists. Below are some of the paintings that we’ll “hear” this week at 7pm. (Image above: Isle of the Dead, 1886, Arnold Böcklin)
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- Large Crucifixion, 1523–25, Matthias Grünewald
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- Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks from The Pictures at the Exhibition (Viktor Hartmann)
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- Red/Green Architecture (yellow/violet gradation), 1922, Paul Klee
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- The Homecoming (“Die Heimkehr”), Arnold Böcklin
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- Primavera (c. 1482), Sandro Boticelli
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- Paris catacombs, Viktor Hartmann
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- The Great Wave off Kanagawa, c. 1829–32, Katsushika Hokusai
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- La cometa, 1777–78, Francisco Goya
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- Red Balloon, 1922, Paul Klee
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- The Birth of Venus, 1486, Sandro Boticelli
