Victor Hugo was convinced that his novel Notre Dame de Paris would be ideal for an opera. Later our compatriot, the composer Alexander Dargomyzhsky, wrote the opera Esmeralda on his own libretto.Continue Reading
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote this song in 1968, and the Rolling Stones opened the album Beggars Banquet with the same track.Continue Reading
The most daring and emotional interpretations of literary subjects have only been made by romantic composers.Continue Reading
All types of art have common roots – originating from syncretism (that is, the stage of their inseparable coexistence, for example, in ritual).Continue Reading
In ancient times there was a unity of word and image: the image was the word and the word was the image. The language of images for many centuries remained the most important.Continue Reading
Philosophers emphasize that art is most fully realized “precisely in its cultural function.” The cultural function of the art history course as a subject of syncretic influence has its own specificity: leaving the area of plastic arts dominating, it can present the artistic and cultural process comprehensively and holistically – as “artistic picture of the world”Continue Reading
The term “illustration” can be understood in both the broad and narrow sense of the word. In the broad sense it is any image that explains the text.Continue Reading
Can serious music maintain its independence as an art form, but become a powerful pictorial medium, armed with a literary subject? Pyotr Ilyich answers that it is possible. Continue Reading