Expressive! Music & Dance in Modern art
Since ancient times, dance, often accompanied by music or sound compositions, has been a fundamental part of human life. In fact, this discipline was very likely present in all cultures, such as Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Etruscans and Romans, usually performed in rituals, ceremonies, popular festivals, in any case always in a collective gathering. Even today, wall paintings, vase decorations, mosaics and frescoes bear witness to the early sequences of movements, which were often performed in the context of a religion, but also as a cult. Thus also the illustration of music was handed down early.
Since music itself cannot be depicted, it has been a prime concern from antiquity to the present to bring melodies and their diverse moods closer to the viewer of their pictures. In the visual arts, this was initially limited to the depiction of musicians and their instruments. Consequently, not only the development of music was documented, but also new forms of representation of music in the visual arts arose again and again.
We would like to invite you to trace these special moments in our new exhibition in Riehen "EXPRESSIV! Music & Dance in the Modern art" and to let your very personal references to the topics "Music & Dance" come to life. Be inspired by the different depictions of dancers and musicians captured by the artists of German Expressionism and Abstraction.
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Since ancient times, dance, often accompanied by music or sound compositions, has been a fundamental part of human life. In fact, this discipline was very likely present in all cultures, such as Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Etruscans and Romans, usually performed in rituals, ceremonies, popular festivals, in any case always in a collective gathering. Even today, wall paintings, vase decorations, mosaics and frescoes bear witness to the early sequences of movements, which were often performed in the context of a religion, but also as a cult. Thus also the illustration of music was handed down early.
Since music itself cannot be depicted, it has been a prime concern from antiquity to the present to bring melodies and their diverse moods closer to the viewer of their pictures. In the visual arts, this was initially limited to the depiction of musicians and their instruments. Consequently, not only the development of music was documented, but also new forms of representation of music in the visual arts arose again and again.
We would like to invite you to trace these special moments in our new exhibition in Riehen "EXPRESSIV! Music & Dance in the Modern art" and to let your very personal references to the topics "Music & Dance" come to life. Be inspired by the different depictions of dancers and musicians captured by the artists of German Expressionism and Abstraction.
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