Wassily Kandinsky! Did it ring a bell? Since my recent posts have been about synesthesia, I am going to share one of the expressionist artist who is also diagnosed by this disease. But he had make full use of this disease to be successful in the art industry! Kandinsky in whom musical tones elicited specific colours, was a tone-colour synaesthete. He used his synesthesia to inform the artistic process by capturing the visual equivalent of a symphony on canvas.
He was the father of abstraction. When he was younger, he said he had heard peculiar hissing sound when mixing different coloured paints in his childhood paintbox. He achieved pure abstraction by replacing the castles and hilltops towers of his early landscapes with stabs of paint or, as he saw them, musical notes and chords that would visually "sing" together. Isn't it amazing!!!! Lets look at a few more of his works.
