Milyaev told about an unusual exhibition that united Kandinsky, jazz and fragrances

The Art Foundation in Tula opened an exhibition “Music in Color”, which combined painting and musical instruments from the collections of the Tula Museum Association and the National Museum of Music. This was told in his channel in the messenger MAH Governor of the Tula region Dmitry Milyaev.

He specified that the central place of the exhibition is occupied by the painting by Vasily Kandinsky “Musical Overture”. Purple wedge is one of the pearls of the Tula museum collection. The artist conveyed music through color and form, turning painting into an independent way of expressing sound. Next to the picture is the theremin of Lev Theremin - an unusual electromusical instrument, which is played without touching it with your hands. Together, these exhibits reveal the main idea of the project - the connection between music and painting.

The Tula Museum Association presented 22 paintings from its collections. Among the authors are Valerian Vyazigin, Vladimir Makovsky, Vladimir Kolesnikov and Alexander Golofeev. The largest work of the exhibition is the two-meter diptych of Alexei Vaulin “The Sound of Jazz”.

The National Museum of Music brought 21 exhibits to Tula. Visitors can see guitars, violins, violas, harmonics and other instruments. Among the unusual items are a Chinese three-stringed plucked instrument Sanxian and a pump tube from Belgium of the early XX century.

The exhibition, as noted by Dmitry Milyaev, offers not only a visual acquaintance with art: paintings are accompanied by special fragrances, and tactile zones allow you to explore the exposition with the help of touch. The Music in Color project will run until January 17, 2027.

As Dmitry Milyaev noted, two exhibition projects of federal museums are presented at the Arts Foundation at the same time. On the third floor there is an exposition “To the fullest voice! Masterpieces of propaganda art” from the collection of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts. It included 252 items of propaganda porcelain, many of which are preserved in a single copy.

The Art Foundation is located in Tula at the address: F. Engels street, 64, building 1.

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Earlier, “MK in Tula” wrote in more detail about the preparation of the exhibition, where art can be felt by the touch.