Adam Schoenberg’s Picture Studies In a modern version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, where he walks around an exhibition of his friend Viktor Hartmann’s paintings, American composer Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980) created his own tour around the Nelson-Atkins Museum

Sergey Akhunov’s Jazz Inspired by Henri Matisse In 1941, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) had abdominal surgery and afterwards was confined to a bed or a chair. With his limited mobility, painting and sculpting were out of the question; however, he still

Musical Interpretations of Henri Matisse’s La Tristesse du roi When we think of self-portraits, we think of images of the artist at work, canvas in front of him, brushes in hand, done at a strange angle so the artist could

Inspirations Behind Anna Clyne’s Abstractions The suite Abstractions (2016) uses the works of five contemporary abstract artists to create an image of art today. The works were all in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art and came from

Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm Inspires Composer Camille Pépin American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) created Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) in his studio in Springs, New York, working with an unprimed canvas on the ground while he poured and scattered paint on

Inspirations Behind Simon Holt’s a book of colours – No. 1. duendecitos The three grotesques are at their meal, cups and bread ready. But these are Goya’s vision of the clergy of his day: rapacious and demanding, full of false

Between 1617 and 1621, the English writer Robert Fludd (1574–1637) produced his Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris, metaphysica, physica, atque technica Historia (The metaphysical, physical, and technical history of the two worlds, namely the greater and the lesser). Fludd

Inspirations Behind Edward Gregson’s 3 Matisse Impressions In his 1997 updating of his 1993 work for recorder and piano, British composer Edward Gregson (b. 1945) expanded performing forces to recorder and chamber orchestra. In his Three Matisse Impressions, Gregson gives