Sight & Sound, Music & Abstraction in Australian Art

Tin Sheders. All the talk has been about OS art to date. Here is information about Australian abstract art from about 1920 - 2006. I have the Booklet which I will bring to the next meeting.
Alan

Composition in Grey (Rag-Time)

I was fascinated by this painting.  At first glance it did not look anything like rag-time however I was viewing it purely as an abstract and not considering that it could be representational - the more I look at it the more I can see two people dancing to a rag-time beat.

Theo van Doesburg Composition in Grey (Rag-time), 1919

I am now considering what it would look like if it was a march or jive.

Blue Rider Art & Music

After a little wandering on the web I realised that I had lead the Tin Shedders astray at our meeting; it was Paul Klee not Franz Marc who was the one whose art was influenced by music.  
Wikepedia tells us that Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of artists from the Neue ... in the promotion of modern art; the connection between visual art and music; ...

From Draft Minutes

Tin Shed Art Group meeting

                   22 November 2010
                   3b.       The theme of Music was agreed for 2011 with
                   virtually no discussion except for the wide range
                   of possibilities this would offer.