Musical canvases by Christian Schutz Automatic translate

On June 28, an exhibition of "singing" paintings opened in the Russian Museum. Their author is a modern German artist Christian Schutz, who believes in the inextricable link between musical and artistic creativity. The concept of color music has been known for a long time, but in his works the master does not strive for vivid effects and shocking the public, but for the expression of basic musical concepts through color images.

Looking at his works, you might think that he is striving to create a new type of musical recording, in which there is no need for a traditional composition recording system. Visual images should evoke such strong emotions and inner experiences that the performer, looking at them, will be able to play the work that served as the basis for Schutz’s work. This goal seems unattainable, but looking at the series of works “The Wanderer”, “Epos”, “Runes”, “Chaconne”, one involuntarily feels a nascent melody inside.

Created in the language of painting and graphics, thanks to the use of modern computer technology, these works are like living evidence of an inextricable link between the cultures of the world. Each painting contains archetypal symbols that are subconsciously understood by every person, as well as unique cultural manifestations of different nations - runic symbols, Scandinavian deities, images of the most outstanding figures of European culture. Primitiveness is replaced by the Renaissance, replaced by the canons, comes complete freedom of self-realization. The work of Christian Schutz is one of the most productive phenomena of modern art, which once lost itself and is in an active search for new goals.

Eve Istr