The subject of this study is the interactivity of music and painting. Using Mussorgsky's piano cycle "Pictures at an Exhibition" as an example, the article analyzes, compares, and interprets the interaction between music and painting, as well as conducts a preliminary investigation into their synthesis from various perspectives, including discussions on linearity, pictoriality, isomorphism, and aesthetics. Parts of the cycle such as "Promenade," "Two Jews: Rich and Poor," and "The Great Gate of Kiev" illustrate the "pictoriality" embodied in musical works. This research aims to explore the interactivity and synthesis of music and painting, offering a new interpretation of the phenomenon of audiovisual synesthesia. By analyzing the inherent laws of auditory perception and their correlation with visual structural principles, the work establishes a conceptual bridge between the arts of hearing and sight. The study employs two methods: a theoretical method that reveals the common features of visual and musical arts to analyze the possibilities of their interaction, and a practical method that demonstrates, using Mussorgsky's works, the pictorial scenes and artistic images expressed in music. The authors' main contribution to the study of the problem at hand lies in examining the interaction between music and painting, not limited to purely artistic thinking. This approach holds the potential to uncover new meanings in both musical and pictorial works. During the research, the question of the interactivity of music and painting was considered, and specific musical works were analyzed in terms of linearity, pictoriality, and isomorphism. In the course of this study, the authors concluded that there exists a profound commonality between music and painting—arts of different natures—facilitating their interaction. The interpenetration and transformation of musical and pictorial elements not only expand the artistic expressiveness of each art, making their imagery more vivid, but also enrich aesthetic perception, giving it greater complexity and expressiveness.
Kreydun et al. (Thu,) studied this question.