Keener's voice — her whole affect — merges with the plaintive score of Laurent Eyquem, the performance attaining
the condition of music.
Let me begin by dispensing with Walter Pater: occasionally the plastic arts do indeed achieve
the condition of music.
Hoyland's painting has often looked as though it was aspiring to
the condition of music — this has been mirrored in the vocabulary of critics, who have tended to describe paintings like the aptly titled «Don't Explain» of 1983 in terms of rhythm and counterpoint.
Creed is also a musician and speaks of wanting to make art aspire to
the condition of music.
Talking about music and aspiring to
the condition of music, I think one of the best things of the past ten years was R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet.
I aspire to
the condition of music because music goes beyond language.
If all art aspires toward
the condition of music, as Pater wrote, Trevor Winkfield must be counted among the most successful artists of all time, John Ashbery has declared.
Of his work, Housley said «I want my painting to aspire to
the condition of music».
If, as Walter Pater says, «all art constantly aspires towards
the condition of music,» then Condo uses a perfect vehicle for reconstructing deconstructions in his jazz - inspired mental landscapes.