Frieze for a Music Room

Albert Bloch, artist

1882–1961

Frieze for a Music Room, 1915

Material/technique: oil; canvas

Credit line: Gift from the Albert Bloch Foundation and museum purchase: Helen Foresman Spencer Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2016.0157

On display: Michaelis Gallery

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"Albert Bloch: Prints and Drawings," Jan-2014, Stephen Goddard
Pierrot figures in harmonizing colors dance, perform and play music in a lyrical landscape where impressions from different senses seem to merge and blend. Several members of The Blue Rider group, notably Wassily Kandinsky, were captivated by the idea of synesthesia-the ability to, for example, see sound or hear color.