It is increasingly common to find art exhibitions that try to awaken our senses by going beyond sight. For example with the immersive Klimt experience in Madrid that allows visitors to get inside the paintings of the Austrian painteror with Dopamine Landa museum where touching and feeling are part of the experience.
Traditional museums also join this way of experiencing art with more than one meaning. The Prado Museum in particular has already launched a project called ‘The essence of a painting. An olfactory exhibition in which the work The sense of smell by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Rubens you can smell and see it.
sound brush strokes at the Prado Museum
Now another one has arrived proposal that wants to unite music with pictorial works and is called “Sound Brushstrokes” and has launched with the collaboration of Amazon: touring the permanent exhibition halls we can enjoy a live piano program in which different selected pieces will be performed.
The concept is that visitors can enjoy piano music while walking through the rooms with the works on display. The artist who will put music to the art of the Prado is the young pianist Cristina Sanz Hernánwhich three times a day for two days a week will play different pieces chosen for the room in which it performs these “Sound Brushstrokes”.
Each month it will take place in a room of the permanent collection, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at three different times of the day, 12 noon, 1 pm and 4 pm. In April, for example, it was held in Room 51 located on floor 0 and, for example, Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in F major, the Romanza No. 2 of Robert Schumann’s opus 28 and the Arabeske, opus 18 also by Schumann. 20 minutes to feel the art not only in the paintings, but also in the music.
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