Bb Major - Variation 3 — Watercolor on Paper by Arnaud Quercy

About This Artwork

This work translates the Bb Major triad into visual form through chromesthetic mapping, part of the Synesthetic Explorations collection. The composition explores how musical harmony appears when chord tones become color relationships, creating a direct bridge between auditory and visual perception.

Orange tones dominate the surface, with tan and silver hues creating substantial presence across the composition. Violet areas appear throughout, providing harmonic counterpoint to the warm orange family. Blue-green and red-violet accents punctuate the arrangement, adding chromatic complexity to the primary chord structure. The watercolor medium allows colors to blend and layer naturally, creating soft transitions between the mapped harmonic relationships.

The work measures 16.0 × 24.0 cm on paper, with the artist's signature located bottom right. Certificate of authenticity number 20240718-0169 accompanies this piece. The Bb Major chord structure translates to specific color relationships: Bb appears as violet tones, D manifests in orange hues, creating the visual equivalent of this fundamental harmonic progression. The piece belongs to the Synesthetic Explorations collection, which investigates the systematic translation of musical structures into color compositions.