Watercolor Study in F Minor No. 5

A small piano étude translated into color. The Watercolor Study in F Minor No. 5 triad — F0, F2, C4, A4, A5 — appears here as red-violet toward black, blue and red, the harmonic-chromatic translation of this chord. From F0 to A5, the étude breathes across the full keyboard. Some accents — yellow-orange — appear as tensions outside the chord tones.
Played Animé — with animation and a sense of forward motion, mp — at a gentle, conversational volume, legato — the notes flowing into one another. From F0 (black), the line climbs to A5 (yellow-orange) — 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.