Debussy and Monet in the concert "The dance of the colours". Interdisciplinary music and painting intervention. Degree in Fine Arts

Abstract

Breaking the usual dynamics of the classroom to improve students´ performance and to encourage their learning spirit and creativity leads us to accept challenges to generate meaningful learning. In this article we approach a multisensory experience which was organized together with the Professional Conservatory of Music of Teruel (Spain). Visual Arts collaborate as guests in a concert-tribute to the pianist and composer Claude Debussy (on the centenary of his death) and, for this, a mural intervention was designed.

The subject of Color I, from the Painting Area, developed a project from the selected repertoire, taking as a starting point synesthesia, which acted as a bridge between both forms of artistic expression and creation. In this way, music and painting were conjugated in a joint work within a collaborative project that was being constructed simultaneously.

In our proposal, we chose Claude Monet and his water lily paintings, to recreate a pond in four mural panels that would be painted in situ by the first course’ students.

Working together, we projected a collaborative work based in sensory perception, the technical skill, and as a point of union between both disciplines, the colors and sounds, which invited to feel and perceive tones, brightness and harmony in an activity of innovation.

The mural intervention and the transformation of the space allowed the notes of color and sound to dance within the same melody, metaphor of a sensorial landscape created on the stage.