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Who is Wassilyy Kandinsy?
Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky is widely credited with making the world's first truly abstract paintings, but his artistic ambition went even further. He wanted to evoke sound through sight and create the painterly equivalent of a symphony that would stimulate not just the eyes but the ears as well.
Kandinsky is believed to have had synaesthesia, a harmless condition that allows a person to appreciate sounds, colors or words with two or more senses simultaneously. In his case, colors and painted marks triggered particular sounds or musical notes and vice versa. The involuntary ability to hear color, see music or even taste words results from an accidental cross-wiring in the brain that is found in one in 2,000 people, and in many more women than men. source: 2013, Ward, The man who heard his paintbox hiss, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3653012/The-man-who-heard-his-paintbox-hiss.html |