7 Finale and Prelude

There were already numerous individual approaches among the pictorial artists of the first half of the twentieth century who tackled the question of music; although positions became even more diverse in the second half of the century (e.g., represented by Jakob Weder, Jack Ox, Robert Strüblin), it is notable that they still often focused on the so-called classicists of music history — Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven.

The search for substantive relationships between musical art and the pictorial arts as well as experiments with new means of visualizing music shifted to film, the new media, installations, and happenings, a trend in which the further expansion of the concept of what is music (and what is art) also played its part.