C# minor — Acrylic on Paper by Arnaud Quercy

About This Artwork

This work translates a C# minor piano étude into visual form through chromesthetic mapping, exploring how musical harmony can become color harmony. Part of the Synesthetic Explorations collection, the piece demonstrates the direct correspondence between musical intervals and color relationships, creating a visual chord structure that mirrors its sonic counterpart.

Blue-green tones dominate the composition, appearing throughout the upper areas and connecting to darker blue forms that occupy substantial portions of the work. Yellow accents provide bright contrast points, while orange and yellow-green notes create smaller harmonic tensions. The color arrangement follows the spread voicing of the original étude, with lighter blues rising toward the top and deeper tones anchoring the lower sections.

The work measures 21.0 × 30.0 cm and weighs minimal as acrylic on paper. Created in 2024, it carries certificate of authenticity number 20240602-0083 with the artist's signature appearing on the front right. The piece translates the specific pitches Db, E, and Ab into their corresponding chromesthetic colors, maintaining the harmonic relationships of the C# minor triad while expanding them across multiple octaves in both visual and implied sonic space.