9th
Epiphany!
Color is really the same thing as music, just at a higher vibration. This is a really good thing to know if you’re someone who is studying music. I was guided to this epiphany by my music theory teacher, the magnificent Blake Reynolds.
So here’s my own, personal epiphany: All of the great impressionist, post-impressionist, fauvist, etc. artists studied under teachers who painted and taught in the classical style. Even Picasso, one of the founding fathers of cubism and incomprehensibility, started with classical training… and he ended up painting penises coming jutting out of donkey anuses. (Picasso didn’t really do that). Following the “if” and “then” formula, aspiring composers should also immerse themselves in the classics… study music theory, listen to the masters, practice writing with that knowledge, and then you develope your own style. That’s what defines an artist! That’s what separates Da Vinci’s last supper from all the others (aside from all the secret codes).
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
These are all paintings of “The Birth of Venus”
Classical:
Post-Impressionism:
Da Da/Surrealism:
Of course, you can also NOT study the classics, but it’s harder that way, and you might end up like Max Ernst (shoutout to my one and only, Maxy Pad!).
