Saturday, November 14, 2009

Visual response to music


I am currently teaching Art in Zurich International School. One of my class groups have been focusing on Kandinsky and his abstract art work. Yesterday I taught a really enjoyable class. The students created visual responses to four contrasting styles of music. It was interesting to see some obvious contrast in shape, line and colour throughout the four drawings. Each student then named the style of music they had listened and drawn to, which became the title of each drawing.

Music extracts by: 1. Mile Davis / 2. Daft Punk / 3. Lemon Jelly / 4. Sufjan Stevens

posted by Paula Henihan at 10:03 PM

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Found it!

Franz Schubert’s Nocturne in E-flat Major (Op.148)

The backing track to Ian Breakwells video piece The Other Side which is part of the Tate Britain collection. It is a beautiful video piece he created while on a residency in East Sussex. This is one of my favorite pieces of video art, along with Bill Violas 'Five Angles'. I feel privileged to have had a private tutorial with Ian Breakwell while studying Art in Galway.


posted by Paula Henihan at 8:31 PM