MAQ Magazine n. 10 / February 2019
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin
Moscow December 25, 1871 - April 14, 1915
At the beginning of the 20th century, the European cultural environment was looking for a new expressive language, a new aesthetic processing to overcome the traditional parameters that founded artistic expression on naturalism. Musical language evolves, experiments with new sound models, it turns becoming less and less "tonal", to describe the artist's psychic life, his illusions and hopes. This experimentation leads musicians to transform sound into color and, at the same time, painters also experiment with new techniques, new languages to transform color into sound and to express the overcoming of naturalism, of the object as seen by the human eye.
Background image: "Composition VIII" by Vasilij Kandinskij, 1923, oil on canvas, 140 × 201 cm, Guggenheim Museum, New York