THE SYMMETRICAL INTERRELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN PAINTING AND MUSIC
FRANZ LISZT, RICHARD WAGNER, ALEXANDER SCRIABIN, DELACROIX, KANDINSKY, WANLY, AND TAHER AS EXAMPLES

Gihan Aboul Kheir
Assistant Professor of History of Art, Faculty of Specific Art Education,
Alexandria University, Egypt, gihanaboulkheir@gmail.com

Abstract
Traditionally, any harmonious composition, in any genre of Art, is called "The musical quality of that sort of Art. In this regard, Delacroix (1798 1863) said: "before realizing what the painting represents, you must be surprised by that radiating magical harmony out of the Artwork" Thus the first thing that is received by recipient of Artwork, would be that called "the musical quality”

Delacroix, is endorsing what has been stated before by Schopenhauer (1788 1860), when he said: "all Arts are aspiring to be music"

The musical vocabulary began to display in visual Arts since the ancient civilizations, when Artists were decorating their murals and vases with pictures of musical instruments. Aristotle (347B.C 384B.C) was convinced that there is always parallel between melodies and colors.
These thoughts have been transferred to the Roman and Byzantine cultures, where the procedures continued until the end of the 18Thcentury.with the advent of the 19th century, there emerged a dominant trend to the unification of music with visual arts, poetry and literature towards a musical form known as the symphonic poem (Franz Liszt (1813-1886)).The 19th century witnessed a big leap in the convergence between various Art genres.

Term like "Gesamtkunstwerk"(The total work of Art) as used by Wagner (1813-1883) was a land mark in that trend. Impressionism in painting was a further step towards convergence between music and painting [Monet (1840-1920 and Debussy (1862-1918)]. During the 20th century, ties of kinship between music and visual art.became more close. The music of Debussy was a discrete impression of landscape and vice versa with respect to Monet.by the mid-20th of century; the electronic music broke barriers between various performing Arts and music. Kandensky (1866-1944) was a typical example of Synesthesia (senses correspondence). He has had the ability to perceive tones through colors. Thus he was, together with Scariabin (1871-1915), the most typical examples of the interrelationship between music and visual art. Now all critics are approving the idea that Kandinsky's Art works derived its inspiration from a mystical source The Music, likewise Scriabin, who inspired his music as a color scheme.
Researches Issue would be: the interrelation between music and plasticArt, (Delacroix, Kandinsky, Seif Wanly, Salah Taher), & what is the impact on art recipient

Keywords: music and plastic Art, Delacroix, Kandinsky, Seif Wanly, Salah Taher