Music and dance
As I write this I am listening to some Shostakovich on Classic FM Prague. Classical music has inspired, stimulated, and excited me for many years, but what is it that music inspires, and how should you use it? All types of music, whatever your preference, can transport you. Listening to music allows images to form in your mind’s eye, rather in the way that Walt Disney imagined Fantasia, Mussorgsky composed Pictures at an Exhibition or Gustav Holst The Planets.
Rhythm is fundamentally stimulating. In the same way that certain colours produce variations in mood, so too does music. Slow melodic themes help me while painting certain images where a pellucid atmosphere dominates. Staccato rhythms are terrific for upping the pace of work, particularly when repetitive but varied marks are required, as for
