{"id":4448,"date":"2024-07-02T07:43:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2025-02-16T01:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T01:15:24","slug":"pictures-at-an-exhibition-by-barbara-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/pictures-at-an-exhibition-by-barbara-king\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION by Barbara King"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Thursday 22nd<\/strong> to Monday 26th August<\/strong> 2024
\n10am to 4pm
\nRingstead Village Hall, High Street, Ringstead
\nWest Norfolk PE36 5JU
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\nExploring how musical terminology can enhance our visual experience.<\/strong>
\nCan a painting be described as a Rhapsody? In music the term is used to describe something irregular in form, an improvisation. So, yes.  If George Gershwin can use the colour blue to describe his rhythmic jazzy \u2018Rhapsody\u2019 then \u2018Rhapsody in Green\u2019 can be used to describe my painting of barleycorn blowing in the wind.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m Barbara king and I\u2019m re-examining my paintings with music in mind. It is a well-known fact that some people see colour when they hear sounds. Known as synaesthesia, this is a fascinating process whereby the brain engages two or more unrelated senses to process information. Duke Ellington claimed to see different colours for the exact same note when played by different musicians and even experienced textures in his perception. For example, he described the note of D as \u2018dark blue burlap\u2019.<\/p>\n

On the flip side of this, Kandinsky, famous 20th century painter, could hear colours. A high trumpet note sounded when he used lemon yellow and he actively set out to paint pictures which would stimulate both aural and optical senses. For him his highly orchestrated and richly coloured abstract paintings must have resonated like a powerful symphony.<\/p>\n\n\t\t