Musicality and visuality: a study about the musical posters by Kiko Farkas

Authors

  • Edson do Prado Pfutzenreuter Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Artes Plásticas
  • Jade Samara Piaia Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Artes, Artes Visuais

Keywords:

Poster. Music. Graphic design. OSESP. Kiko Farkas.

Abstract

This article is about a study of the graphic elements that compose visual messages in graphics projects focused on artistic cultural area. The case focused in the article is the visual analysis of twelve posters designed by Kiko Farkas for OSESP -- State Symphony Orchestra of São Paulo, produced between the years 2003 and 2007. The posters for OSESP refer to performances, concerts, plays, tours and institutional messages. This article uses the concepts of musicality, brought by Wisnick (1989), and visual language, brought by Dondis (2003) in the observation of musical posters. It also deals with ideas of different visual artists who wrote about similarities between musical and visual languages, as Kandinsky (1996, 1997) and Klee (2001). These associations can be imagined as a sensorial experience at first, but may be reflected physically in ways of structuring and organization of visual composition, which was observed in the posters.

Author Biographies

Edson do Prado Pfutzenreuter, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Artes Plásticas

Edson do Prado Pfutzenreuter é mestre e doutor em Comunicação e Semiótica pela PUC-SP. Atualmente é orientador e docente nos programas de graduação e de pós-graduação do Instituto de Artes da UNICAMP.

Jade Samara Piaia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Instituto de Artes, Artes Visuais

Jade Samara Piaia é mestra em Artes Visuais pela UNICAMP com a dissertação O design gráfico no circuito cultural artístico: projetos de Kiko Farkas e Vicente Gil. Atualmente é docente na FAAL e está em processo de doutoramento em Artes Visuais pela UNICAMP na linha de pesquisa Poéticas visuais e processos de criação.

Published

2014-06-12

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