Music is an art of expressing ones feelings. Adjusting a piece to the perfect rhythm, variation in the tempo makes one get the feel of the music. Listening to a piece of music sometimes gives a good mood and refreshes one from fatigue. Similarly, a painters stroke makes it feel the same. When an artist draws, his every stroke is detailed and accurate. Talking about accuracy, music and painting both need to be given a good finishing all together so that the entire picture is depicted before you through its strokes, which makes you sway resembling the waves in the ocean.
I was just sitting one day and thought what if music and painting be interrelated? What a thought. A stroke on a paper and a chord on instrument say it all. When a rhythm of music sets into your mind, you immediately start swaying to the rhythm of music. Similarly, when music is played, the brushes of the painter automatically tango with the canvas. Rhythm in music is something you can tap your feet to. It tells you how to rock with the music. Rhythm affects art in a similar manner. If an artist uses rhythm correctly, he or she is capable of making your eyes move around every corner of the paper within seconds. It is how the artist wants you to see his/her work.
Sometimes rhythm and the piece are difficult to be understood by a common man who has no knowledge about music, similarly a stroke of a painter fails a normal man to understand what he wants to reveal. The musical notes increase in frequency at a predetermined ratio and so do colour. Moreover, music and art have many things in common such as the pattern, rhythm, balance and emphasis. As each tone has a certain weight which gives a song its overall balance, correspondingly same principle is applied by artists to add structure and balance the painting.
In a palette, the artist mixes the colours and comes up with a unique colour, likewise, the musician combines different notes and composes his own music. As the process proceeds, painting and music do converge as construction becomes more mysterious, if it does not fade away altogether.
Music and painting have many things in common such as pattern, colour, shape and form, but the way of expressing the emotion varies in language.
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