Musical Themed
Paintings
Musical themed paintings can be fun to find and fun to
buy. I have a musician friend that recently purchased a
new home. She bought new furnishings and asked me to find
a new painting for her. I found her a fabulous creation
by Osnat. It was an enormous, gallery size painting.
My friend’s new furnishings were very contemporary and the
Osnat musical themed painting I bought for her was breathtaking
when all five parts were mounted. The musical staff ran
the length of the painting with musical notes painted on
it. The painting had pretty shades of yellows and
oranges. It looked so elegant.
I found a still life musical themed painting of a guitar to
buy for a friend. He always has had beautiful pieces of
art in his home and he wanted to change some of the pieces he
had grown tired of. The abstract piece that I found
really struck a cord with my friend and he ended up buying
another painting from the same artist.
I found a painting that was called Music of Fire that didn’t
really seem to have a musical theme. I showed it to a
friend and she told me that the flames looked like they were
dancing. She told me that I was using a very narrow
definition of musical themed paintings when I was buying
art.
Abstract guitars really seem to be my favorite musical
themed paintings. I like to buy them when they jump out
at me. There is an artist named Slazo that is very
prolific with his musical themed guitar paintings. He has
had a lot of exhibitions in Florida.
A friend of mine asked me to find artwork by an Armenian
named Aram Koupetzian. I was able to find a musical
themed painting called Rondo by this artist. It was
really intriguing. I’ve never purchased a painting in the
Cubist style before. The exact style of this musical
themed painting was Synthetic Cubism. I liked it a
lot. There is a lot to look at in the painting.
A couple of years ago, a good friend of mine graduated from
the University of Texas in Austin with a degree. He had a
double major of music and education. He got a job as an
assistant band director at a middle school in Austin. As
a combination graduation and new job present, I bought him a
musical themed painting.
The musical themed painting that I chose was painting by
Tilo Rothacker that depicted a jazz musician playing a
trumpet. It was so very colorful and it felt a lot like
New Orleans. My friend and I had visited the French
Quarter several times together. This musical themed
painting celebrated his life changes and our friendship
perfectly.
My younger sister is quite the accomplished violinist.
She moved to New York and went to Juilliard. Her path
changed after a couple of years in New York. She stopped
pursuing the violin as a career, but her love for her music
never waned. I bought her a musical themed painting when
she bought her apartment. It was a contemporary abstract
with brilliant rich jewel tones that depicted a woman
violinist.
I was looking for musical themed paintings one day when I
found Melody of Sunset for sale. I’m not sure why this
painting bothered me so much. The woman was playing the
piano, but she seems disembodied and strange. Her eyes
were closed. This musical themed painting just did not
strike a cord with me and I did not buy it.
My favorite musical themed painting in a long time was The
Sound of Jazz. It was painted by Sarah Kinan and it is
gorgeous. It is hard for me to not smile when I’m looking
into this painting. The background looks like confetti
and the foreground is filled with musical instruments.
This musical themed painting can be described as feeling like a
party.
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