Volume 4, Number 2 - Spring 2008 (March)
Editorial Articles
Featured Artist
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Featured Artist:
Images courtesy of the artist; Artist statement I am an abstract artist, working in acrylic on canvas. Since the early 2000s, my artwork has centered on the creation of abstract paintings in which I try to find a visual interpretation of musical motion – both structurally and in color. This is why I call my work "Visual Music." Musical forms, melodies, harmonies, textures, dynamics and tempos are all inspiration for my art. My palette follows the principle of contrast and repetition -- the paramount principle in musical compositions. Thus, I attempt to both create the connection between art and music and at the same time transcend the boundaries of these two cultural mediums. Biography Vadim is an artist, writer, and composer. As an artist, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Connecticut organized by the Society of Creative Arts. His most recent solo exhibition was in October 2007 at the C. H. Booth Library, Newtown, Connecticut. His paintings sold to private collectors in New York City. He is an author and illustrator of the book Little Red Riding Hood (to be published next year), author of Russian Folk Songs: Musical Genres and History (published in 2001 by Scarecrow Press). He has contributed cover and feature articles to The Guardian (London), Parade Magazine, Air& Space/Smithsonian, The Moscow Times, and Gramophone Online Magazine, among others. His choral compositions and arrangements of Russian vocal compositions and folk songs have been published by Oxford University Press, Hal Leonard, EC Schirmer, and Musica Russica. Vadim has given lectures on Russian music at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Wesleyan and Boston Universities, among others. Sizes and dates:
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