Works of art have an incredible power to influence human emotion. Both paintings and musical compositions can bring a smile to someone’s face or even move them to tears. This is because artists often use their art as an outlet for the intense emotions they may not otherwise be able express. Two works of art in particular were created in manner quite similar to this. One a musical composition and one a painting, these mediums of art essentially depicted the inner workings of their artist’s deteriorating mind.
In the podcast “Unraveling Bolero,” we the circumstances of these two individuals who both created forms of art that reflected their mental state. In the early 20th century, Maurice Ravel created a revolutionary musical composition. Decades later, a Vancouver biologist heard this piece for the first time. Obsessed with Ravel’s composition, Anne Adams took up the arduous task of creating, essentially the physical manifestation of this piece. Her painting was as unconventional and as chaotically repetitive as Ravel’s piece. Unbeknownst to Adams, her painting, like Ravel’s composition, was the artistic portrayal of her mind’s state of deterioration.
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