In 1873, the Russian radical architect and painter Victor Hartmann died of an aneurysm. The Russian cultural community deplores the death of such a talented artist. As a result, a special painting exhibition in memory of Hartmann was held at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.

Hartmann’s close friend, the Russian composer Mussorgsky, was inspired to create after visiting this exhibition. Therefore, based on ten of Hartmann's paintings, the piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition" was created. The ten paintings respectively show the dwarf, the castle, the garden of the Tuileries Palace, the ox cart, the dance of the bird chicks, the two Jews, the market in Limoges, the tomb, the hut on chicken feet and the Kiev City Gate. .

This piano suite is not only one of Mussorgsky's representative instrumental works, but also one of the most original Russian pieces of music in the 19th century.

One is an invisible auditory art, and the other is a tangible visual art, but they are connected and connected in the hands of the artist. It is this connection that allows people to "hear" colors from sounds and "see" sounds from colors.

The story does not end here. In 1928, Kandinsky, also a Russian painter, was moved by the music of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and created a group of paintings also named "Pictures at an Exhibition".

Kandinsky reinterpreted these pieces of music into points, lines, and surfaces of color. Through the organization and application of these basic elements, new musical works are composed of colors. In the graceful movement of the notes, an abstract poem that combines visual and auditory feelings is created.

This story of the combination of music and color appeared again at the 41st Hong Kong Arts Festival in 2013. The French artistic genius pianist Michel Rudy played Moussall's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and made a video display of the manuscript of Kandinsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition".

This kind of performance allows the colorful graphics of the paintings to be displayed simultaneously with the live performance, giving the audience a triple shock of vision, hearing and soul.

If the above story is about spring and snow, then the work introduced now is about elegance and vulgarity.

Music and art are perfectly combined here again.

This kind of cross-border inspiration comes from the hands of two Russian illustration artists, Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich. They combine painting and music, and use color pens to illustrate our delicate daily life on the yellowing staff. Life is tranquil and full of rhythm. They titled their portfolio "People Too."

These colorful pieces. It not only depicts the tranquility of the countryside, but also the hurried footsteps in the city. It seems that you can clearly hear it, the leisurely fishing by the lake, the noisy and lively dance steps on the dance floor, the rush of office workers, the green hills and lifelike scenery. sparrow. These illustrations become three-dimensional and full through the musicality of the staff, turning life into a song.

Let us enjoy it together.