Exposition

Gabrielle Thierry

After numerous studies of forms and colors, my research as a painter led me to the representation of the rhythms of landscape. The question of the musicality of landscapes and its pictorial translation took form during the early stages of this work. I explored the interactions between colors/forms and notes/musical composition. I chose to paint while listening to music and created the colored partitions. The pictorial interpretation of musical composition is as spontaneous as possible and relies on cognitive mechanisms that create their own logic of a visual language. With this language, my paintings aim at the convergence of landscapes and music based on emotion and feelings. Les Matinales on J.S.Bach sonata is a polyptych from figuration to abstraction, from landscape to music representations. Painting vs. Music www.gabriellethierry.com.

« Musical Qualities of the Water Lilies, Nuages » - Oil on canvas, diptych 50x320cm, 2011

The musical performance and their correspondence with landscapes, or the related language - also called Synesthesia - emerged under the influence of music by Schubert, Bach, Liszt, Bruckner or Gershwin, as well as contemporary composers and interpreters. I decided to meet and work directly with musicians as well as with scholars specialised in the study of the convergence of the arts. Synaesthetic painting workshops invite the public to explore the relationship between music and color. Participants begin with a landscape and discover how music can be revealed as a colorful space.

Since 2008, exhibitions have been organised, some of them during live concerts (e.g. Escales Tunisiennes, Carthage Symphony Orchestral, Tunisia, 2023 - Printemps de l'Orgue, Paris, 2018 – The Musicality of the Water Lilies, Cantor Art Gallery, (Mass.)- The Last Reflection of Ophelia, The Brooks Concert Hall, Worcester, 2017 - Pianos Hanlet, 2016 - Fondation Diverso/Inverso, Italie, 2013).

« La Valse » by Ravel, the colored score  - Oil on canvas, 3 panneaux 100x300 cm, 2013

I am regularly invited as a guest lecturer ( Palazzetto Bru-Zane in Venice, Fermo in Italy, Paris, Lorraine and Burgundy Universities, Vannes in France, University of Luxembourg, TEDx Talk). In 2014, I took part in the international symposium Joined Senses: Synesthesia in Texts and Images held at the Burgundy University in Dijon, co-organized with the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass. US). I presented my painting titled "La Valse" of Maurice Ravel, a synesthesia experimentation (Ed. Interfaces), followed by Vol d'Oiseaux on F Liszt, look with Marc-Mathieu Münch, and Les Nymphéas de Claude Monet, une inépuisable source d'inspiration., Revue Internationale d'Art et d’Artologie, Ophelia, The Musical Aesthetics of Water, Melusina press, etc.

I am a French painter living in Andrésy, a small city located west of the Paris region on the river Seine. Prior to dedicating my career to painting twenty years ago, I studied AI & Cognitive sciences (Engineer degree ESIEA, Paris, 1990) . I studied painting and drawing at the Ateliers du Carrousel and Atelier Poussin (Paris,1992-1917). In 2003, I graduated at Christie's Education Paris where I studied the expert identification and presentation of paintings (Art authentication Expert System feasibility study). I am the biographer and expert of the french artist Renefer (1879-1957).

 

Place de l’Alma, after the Rite of Spring

« Paris, Place de l'Alma, After the Rite of Spring, Stravinsky «  - Oil on canvas , 86x200 cm, 2023

Quartet

Schubert Fantasia

« Fantasia, 4 Hands by Schubert » - Oil on canvas, 165x126 cm, 2009

La Cheffe d’Orchestre

“One day, we'll come to perform symphonies at the same time as we represent beautiful paintings, to increase the impression.”

 Delacroix, Journal,1856

This painting is a colored representation of Beethoven 7th Symphony, the orchestra is painted by the instrument colors and the public can see the music, as a colored space growing on the concert hall space.

5 Days in NYC

« 5 days in New-York on Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin » - Oil on canvas, 160x140cm , 2022

Paris – Rhythms & Harmonies

The series "Paris: Space" was inspired by the roofs of Paris and the rhythm of Dutilleux's sonata. In the tradition of the moderns, the paintings of Gabrielle Thierry, who lived in Pars for 15 years, remind us once again that abstraction in painting was born from the interaction of art and music