Františekas Kupka ir Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: abstraktėjančios spalvų muzikos stilistinės metamorfozės
František Kupka and Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: Stylistic Metamorphoses of Abstract Colour Music

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to comparative analysis of musical painting by František Kupka and Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. It first provides a discussion of the origins of both artists’ painting style and explorations in the field of interaction between painting and music. Particular attention is given to the influence that Theosophical, Orientalist and colour theories had on development of musicality in their artistic work. Then follows a comparative analysis that reveals their paintings’ links with similar quests and their paintings show links to various neo-romantic and modernist painting movements. Based on these revelations the author argues that despite Kupka and Čiurlionis’s differences in artistic expression and complex metamorphoses of artistic style, a closer look at the strategies of integration between painting and music that was common to them both reveals many similarities that are particularly apparent in the areas of abstraction of colouring solutions and artistic forms associated with Theosophical, Orientalist and colour theories.

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