How do the works of art sound?
in 1950 Nat King Cole performed the song Mona Lisa , composed by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, for the film** Captain Carey, U.S.A**, which also won an Oscar for best original song that same year.
Furthermore, the song, which referred to the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci , entered the Billboard chart for seven weeks in 1950. The lyrics went like this: “Mona lisa, mona lisa, men have called you. You look so much like the lady with the mystical smile . Is it just because you're lonely that you've been blamed? Is that why you have, mona lisa, that strangeness in your smile? Do you smile to tempt some Mona lisa crush? Or is this your way of hiding a broken heart?
Throughout history there have been many** artists who have been inspired by painting to create songs**, which have later gained worldwide fame.
Confinement has made some of those great songs part of a playlist created by MoMA in New York . Do you want to know which ones have been added?
Don McLean was inspired by Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' to compose 'Vincent'.
In his playlist you will find a compilation of 22 songs , among which are classics such as Vincent created by composer Don McLean , who in 1971 was inspired by seeing the painting Van Gogh's Starry Night . “Looking at the picture, I realized that the essence of the artist's life is his art. And so, I let the painting write me the song ”, recalls the MoMA on its website in the words of the author.
They were also inspired by works of art Rolling Stones when they composed Paint it, Black and The Modern Lovers when writing Pablo Picasso.
“Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine wrote an entire musical (Sunday In the Park With George) inspired by the painting by Georges Seuret A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The Color + Light song is particularly representative of painting. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright , by Paul Simon, uses the architect's passing as a metaphor for Simon's impending separation from his longtime collaborator, Art Garfunkel. And ** Peter Gabriel ** wrote the song Don't Give Up after seeing an exhibition of the photographs of ** Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl ** ", underlines MoMA.
Do you feel like disconnecting? Here you can listen to the complete list.