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Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
The Culture Show has been making direct connections between art inspired by music and music inspired by art. Now it’s time for more - unexpected connections...The Culture Show is continuing its look at how the visual arts and music are so connected - sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly. We have unearthed a wealth of examples, yet we have so much more to explore. I hope that for those of you who join me for the music – much of which has never been, or is very seldom played on Radio 4 – you will also develop my passion for art. Join me, Stacey Rodda, Sunday nights at 7 pm for The Culture Show.
Art about music as we return to exploring the works of French artist André Derain. We will 'view' his paintings ‘Music’, ‘Bacchus Dance’, ‘Harlequin & Pierrot’ and ‘Mano the Dancer’, taking in this 'exhibition' with music contemporary to the time of their creation
In this final episode we look at what might be the most obvious and direct connections of the series - I probably don’t even have to name the music or the art works: Respighi to Bottecelli and Debussy to Hokusai
Presenter：Stacey Rodda 盧廸思
REMBRANDT, DALI, AND THE HARP
We continue our look at visual art depicting the harp through the ages from Rembrandt to Dali. We begin with Rembrandt’s Saul and David (1655).
Rembrandt, arguably the greatest master of rendering the human soul in painting, filtered out of the twenty-five-hundred-year-old story what he had to say to his own 17th century Holland. One of his great masterpieces, it exquisitely depicts the pain, suffering and anguish of the old king which David is trying to sooth with his harp playing.
We then enter the 20th century and continue our exploration of visual art featuring the harp with a stretch - something he continually did in his paintings - with Meditation on the Harp created by the renowned Surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
Dali often proclaimed music as being far inferior to painting as an art form, yet he depicted violins, cellos, guitars, pianos and other instruments in his works. Dalí himself had a complex relationship with music, publicly disparaging it, while apparently privately enjoying it.
Music by Handel and Satie complete the programme.
