Quasi Una Musica
Quasi Una Musica
Kupka and Klee, Music, and the Idea of Abstraction
This chapter compares the role of music in the works of painters Frantisek Kupka and Paul Klee. It explains that Kupka considers music as a transcendental signifier, a re-presentation of the will, the spirit, and the idea, while Klee believes that it is to be understood as an organic, and already cultural, metaphor of growth, creation, and the forces of nature. The chapter also mentions that, for Klee, music was principally seen as a way to emphasize the dimension of time in visual art.
Keywords: music, painters, Frantisek Kupka, Paul Klee, transcendental signifier, metaphor of growth, visual art
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