
Red Dogs and Pink Skies: Paul Gauguin on Painting and Music
Bruce Adolphe
About the Book | |||
Red Dogs and Pink Skies is a full color, sumptuously designed book exploring Paul Gauguins ideas about painting and music. A CD of original music, composed by Bruce Adolphe and inspired by Gauguins work and ideas, is included. Adolphe and Polenghi,MoreRed Dogs and Pink Skies is a full color, sumptuously designed book exploring Paul Gauguins ideas about painting and music. A CD of original music, composed by Bruce Adolphe and inspired by Gauguins work and ideas, is included. Adolphe and Polenghi, composer and painter, have created an accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking testament to Gauguin in music, images, and text, replete with quotes from Gauguins writings, and enhanced by a timeline highlighting events in the artists life in the context of music, science, literature, politics, and daily life. The book is filled with borders and background designs derived from elements that can be found in Gauguins paintings. Together, the music and book celebrate the relationship of painting to music. | |||