Beauty Of Art Essay

The common factor between music and painting is that they are both compositions. Wassily Kandinsky was fascinated by music’s emotional power and used music as an inspirational tool. Music expresses itself through sound and time. The beauty of music is that it allows a listener a freedom of imagination, interpretation, and emotional response that is not based on the literal but also on the abstract qualities of painting. In other words, one can deduce that music is the language that the soul is affected by in a very powerful manner; music is subtle, invisible, but its effects are tangible and profound, even though it is not always empirically provable. In the words of Friedricch Nietzsche “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Let’s not forget how music had contributed to Albert Einstein’s intellectual performance; he’s also quoted saying. “A table, a chair, a fruit basket and a violet, what else does a man need to be happy?

Kandinsky believed that music can respond and appeal directly to the artist’s subconscious and express his spiritual values. The artist went further reiterated that music advances the human to the epoch of greater spirituality (Dabrowski 2007) Spirituality, being that which relieves the human body from the straining emotions that the material world yield when the individual interacts with it; it helps transcend all the negatives that are relayed and absorbed from materialistic dimensions.

Total work of art that was formed by a mixture of language, music, and visual arts as playing equal roles in a viewer's perception of art. This was in-part to the synaesthic experiences he had as a child in Moscow when he listened to music, in which sounds generated visual experiences for him. They fed him with what Einstein regards as more important than knowledge,