I have some homework where I have to turn a piece of music I like into art, but I have no clue what piece to choose! Please help

I am eagerly waiting for Lottie to see this thread...

Might be worth dropping her a PM, actually.

I'm waiting for people to reply to this too! I've been asked to take part in a project this term which involves composing a piece (in a large group) based on DNA. Should be interesting...

When you say "art", do you mean painting or could it be sculpture...

I'll assume painting, and until somebody comes along with some more useful advice, I can only suggest choosing a piece which evokes strong emotions of some sort - whether it's longing or anger or joy or sadness... Choose colours which are appropriate to the emotion (red for anger is an obvious one). Would it be abstract? If the music evokes anger, the painting might be very hard and jagged. If the music evokes great joy, you might depict an explosion (like champagne not a bomb!) But hopefully someone will have better ideas than these - art's not really my strong point!

Good suggestion there

Thanks that really helpful!

Look at the work of Kandinsky!

As Skylark mentioned you can either go down the route of abstraction or realism. With regards to realism I have seen a painted interpretation of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata which is nothing more than an upright piano with a candlestick on the lid and a lake in the background. The painting is 'nice', yet I would really recommend going down the route of abstract painting.

If you choose abstraction, you can interpret mood, rhythm, harmony (is the piece dissonant? If so you could juxtapose two 'awkward' colours) etc. Again, I would encourage you to look at Kandinsky, his most spontaneous paintings he called 'Improvisations' and his more elaborate works, 'Compositions', as with music. I would be surprised if he doesn't provide some form of inspiration!

How about Handel's Water Music? You can recreate the fireworks display held at its first public performance!

This reminds me of when I was in Year 5 and we were played a piece of music and told to paint what we thought it sounded like.

The obvious one would be one movement from 'Pictures at an Exhibition' by Moussourgsky.

This is sort-of the wrong way round, but Degas (he of ballet dancers fame) painted the (Paris?) Opera Orchestra (MUsee d'Orsay collection now but haven't sen it on display). Mostly it was of the bassoonist - I think he was a friend.

Ballet music overwhelmed by loud bassoon solos?

If you're still stuck for ideas, perhaps you could submit a blank sheet of paper to represent John Cage's 4'33".... Or to be slightly more creative, make it 3 sheets of loo paper to represent each of the three movements....