C Minor M7 - Research on Harmony

Physical Details
- Medium: Acrylic on Paper
- Dimensions: 21.0 × 30.0 cm
- Weight: 0.1 kg
- Date: 2026
- Location: France
- Certificate of Authenticity: N°20260305-0008
- Catalogue Number: AQC0956
- Signature: signed
- Collection: Synesthetic Explorations
- Availability: Available for Sale
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2026
Description
Nine tones trace a C minor-major seventh — the minor triad's darkness sharpened by a major seventh. C, E♭, B: three pitch classes that pull in different directions, spread from C1 to E♭7. Red dominates the low C tones, near-black in the sub-bass; blue-violet appears with the E♭ in the middle and upper registers; the B tones — the major seventh — bring red-orange, a warm dissonance cutting through the cooler minor harmony.
Played Animé, mf, legato — the loudest dynamic in this collection, and the ascending waltz drives from C1 to E♭7 with clear forward momentum. The minor-major seventh is one of harmony's more volatile chords: the minor third says dark, the major seventh says bright. That contradiction lives in the color palette — red and blue-violet in tension, red-orange mediating between them.
A standalone exploration from the Synesthetic Explorations. The minor-major seventh chord appears in jazz, in film music, in the uncanny spaces between major and minor. This study translates its particular ambivalence: warm and cool pressed together, neither winning.
Collection
Synesthetic Explorations
Contemporary
Technical Notes
- Format: Medium
- Type: Painting
- Image resolution: 1846x2769 px
Related Documentation
- Gallery page (EN)https://artquamanima.com/en/artworks/2026/03/c-minor-m7-research-on-harmony_1yjw.html
- Gallery page (FR)https://artquamanima.com/fr/oeuvres/2026/03/do-mineur-m7-recherche-sur-lharmonie_1yjw.html
- Nanopublication: Digital Image Documentation - aqc0956_img_full_1846x2769_webphttps://multimodal.institute/en/nanopubs/2026/03/AQC0956-digital-image-documentation-aqc0956_img_full_1846x2769_webp.html
https://multimodal.institute/en/nanopubs/2026/03/AQC0956-digital-image-documentation-aqc0956_img_full_1846x2769_webp.pdf - Nanopublication: Computational Image Analysis - AQC0956https://multimodal.institute/en/nanopubs/2026/03/AQC0956-computational-image-analysis-aqc0956.html
https://multimodal.institute/en/nanopubs/2026/03/AQC0956-computational-image-analysis-aqc0956.pdf - Nanopublication: Physical Specificationshttps://multimodal.institute/en/nanopubs/2026/03/AQC0956-physical-specifications.html
https://multimodal.institute/en/nanopubs/2026/03/AQC0956-physical-specifications.pdf
References
- Catalogue Raisonnéhttps://arnaudquercy.art/en/catalogue-raisonne/index.html
Page Information
- Last updated : 2026-03-25
- Language: EN | Version française