F Major

appears here as red-violet toward black, yellow-orange toward orange and red toward red-orange, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From F1 to F4, the étude breathes across the full keyboard.
Played Animé — with animation and a sense of forward motion, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume, legato — the notes flowing into one another. From F1 (black), the line climbs to F4 (violet) — the climax, where the phrase hangs suspended. Arnaud wrote it in triple time, the melody moves in a quiet, waltz-like motion.
This painting belongs to my Harmonic Crossing series, an ongoing practice of translating harmonic relationships into visual form. Each variation is a study — direct, unadorned, focused on the essential character of the chord.