Artists and Music as their muse
Wassily Kandinsky
Music and art have been synonymous since the early 20th Century. Think about Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings in response to Operatic scores. Absract expressionism like Jackson Pollock could be understood as a reactionary process to music. Painters would allow music to make them feel a certain way, which could determine the way a painting may feel. Particular attention should be drawn to the way the marks have been made with the paintbrush, and how these resemble moments in music; intricate and delicate marks suggest quietness and gentleness, whereas the bold black lines and arching colour spectrums indicate speed, movement and power.
Artists and Music as their collaborative partners
Sir Peter Blake
Keith Haring
This notion of artist's work becoming mass produced is further exampled a couple of decades on with Keith Haring. Embodying the emerging hip hop and rap scene in New York, Haring begun with painting on the underground, before his work was picked up by various media moguls and spread across multiple mass-audiences. MTV was crashing onto the scene and perfectly complimented the low-fi throw-away culture of Post Modernism.
Tate Modern recently tried to recapture this frenetic movement with the Pop Life exhibition. Here, Haring's work was realised as a giant installation-come-pop-up-shop motif, complete with personalised skateboards, t-shirt and a heavy rap soundtrack.
Artist's, Music and Cartoons and how these affect a diversifying cultural practice
Andy Holden
Andy Holden creates museum type installations of his own work, often with a cartoon inspired theme.
He incorporates performances of his own band in his work, and lectures about trends in old cartoons.
Like a domestic archive, the backdrop and props become as important as the original works.
Mark Leckey
Likewise cartoon characters like Felix the cat and the Simpsons feature as a popular cultural point of study for Mark Leckey, as he antagonises their embedded symbiotic and social significance. Art, music and - even what may be deemed as ’low-brow’ art - cartoons are no longer just separate entities of entertainment and creativity, but part of a bigger cross-study for some contemporary artists.
Brian Griffiths
Brian Griffiths sculpts enormous concrete heads of mickey-mouse like animals, and, like Andy Holden champions the boy in the bedroom aesthetic of craftsmanship, irony and charm that resonate with earlier subculture movements within music such as punk, acid and brit pop. His older works acted as large installations created with cardboard and sellotape, to create sci-fi sets.
Artists and Music as their collaborative partners
Sir Peter Blake
Andy
Since the birth of Pop as an artistic movement from the mid 1950's and through the 60's, musicians and bands would tend to look towards the artists of the time to collaborate and brand their image. Consumers of the age, Andy Warhol and (Sir) Peter Blake helped define the visual language of materialism and worked with bands Velvet Underground and the Beatles respectively, in designing artwork that would be reproduced thousands of times and dispersed through society and the media. Two distinct art forms were beginning to merge beyond music as inspiration, to music as the topic of work.
Art as a Brand
Keith Haring
This notion of artist's work becoming mass produced is further exampled a couple of decades on with Keith Haring. Embodying the emerging hip hop and rap scene in New York, Haring begun with painting on the underground, before his work was picked up by various media moguls and spread across multiple mass-audiences. MTV was crashing onto the scene and perfectly complimented the low-fi throw-away culture of Post Modernism.
Tate Modern recently tried to recapture this frenetic movement with the Pop Life exhibition. Here, Haring's work was realised as a giant installation-come-pop-up-shop motif, complete with personalised skateboards, t-shirt and a heavy rap soundtrack.
Artist's, Music and Cartoons and how these affect a diversifying cultural practice
Andy Holden
Andy Holden creates museum type installations of his own work, often with a cartoon inspired theme.
He incorporates performances of his own band in his work, and lectures about trends in old cartoons.
Like a domestic archive, the backdrop and props become as important as the original works.
Mark Leckey
Likewise cartoon characters like Felix the cat and the Simpsons feature as a popular cultural point of study for Mark Leckey, as he antagonises their embedded symbiotic and social significance. Art, music and - even what may be deemed as ’low-brow’ art - cartoons are no longer just separate entities of entertainment and creativity, but part of a bigger cross-study for some contemporary artists.
Brian Griffiths sculpts enormous concrete heads of mickey-mouse like animals, and, like Andy Holden champions the boy in the bedroom aesthetic of craftsmanship, irony and charm that resonate with earlier subculture movements within music such as punk, acid and brit pop. His older works acted as large installations created with cardboard and sellotape, to create sci-fi sets.
