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The Visual Music of a painting is its sensuous, non-intellectual part. It derives from the physiological pleasure the human brain gets from making visual order out of the visual chaos of nature. The artist translates nature’s complexity into a rhythm of simpler shapes, colors, and values and at the same time creates color harmony from the kaleidoscope of often inharmonious colors that are found in nature. This is done by selectively choosing what to paint and by using the appropriate colors to achieve that harmony. The music works in two ways:
- when the painting is seen from a far distance, and
- when it is seen from a near distance. The near music derives from how the paint has been applied to the painting and in the rhythm and shapes of the brushwork.
See the Visual Music & Poetry Building Block for more information.
