5. Bridget Riley -Self-explanatory.
6. Piet Mondrian -I imitated Mondrian's rectangles with a square-shaped melody, spotted here and there in the range. Aaron Copland breezes, Agnes de Mille-Michael Kidd choreography, Schindler buildings, George Shearing, Dave Brubeck.
7. Joan Miro -Impish bass a la Jimmy Garrison, birds and stars galavanting across a Mallorcan landscape. A bit of Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Annie Ross, Watts Towers.
8. Henri Matisse -Persian moods Ellingtonesque. Soft, lyrical, Jo Stafford, Rimsky-Korsakov, Isadora Duncan, John Coltrane, Sacre Couer, Frank Lloyd Wright.
9. Alexander Calder -Swaying in the breeze, miniature circus acts, stable Stabiles. Bill Evans, Barney Kessel. Cirque de Soleil, Marcel Marceau, Nancy Wilson.
10. Marcel Duchamp -Ever descending, Lionel Hampton, The Gateway Arch of Saarinen, and his TWA bird terminal, Edith Piaf. |
