Thursday, April 29

Read "The Look of Music, on Show in Dublin": Morton Feldman & Abstract Painting


By Mariana Schroeder for The Wall Street Journal:
Dublin: As a composer, Morton Feldman was part of an avant-garde movement called the New York school -- the abstract expressionists of music. In fact, he said his music was abstract painting, and demonstrated his devotion to the idea by dedicating pieces to friends whose art inspired him; artist friends, in turn, dedicated works to him. In 1967 Feldman even curated a show in Houston, Texas, called "Six Painters" (the six being Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko). It's a connection the Irish Museum of Modern Art celebrates with its exhibit "Vertical Thoughts."
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