Vasily Kandinsky saw colours when he heard music. Yellow for a trumpet blast and red for a violin. It led to a revolution.
While never formally diagnosed, he is believed to have possessed synaesthesia, where senses of taste, sight, hearing, touch and smell can cross-talk.
From Saturday, 50 of his most groundbreaking works will go on show at the Art Gallery of NSW’s new summer blockbuster,The works come from New York’sMegan Fontanella, curator of Modern Art and Provenance at the Guggenheim Museum.The museum’s founder, Solomon Guggenheim, and his niece, Peggy, were patrons of Kandinsky. Today, the Guggenheim boasts one of the world’s largest collections of Kandinsky, all at a time when individual works sell for millions.
Kandinsky saw red when he heard a violin, yellow for a trumpet blast, and blue for a cello. In white and black he heard silence, or at least an absence of sound, notes Dunn. Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky was a successful lawyer before he took up painting at the relatively late age of 30.. “That was a kind of aha moment for him,” Fontanella says. Not long after he saw Wagner’s opera, playing at that time at the Bolshoi Theatre and abruptly abandoned his legal work and went to Munich to study painting, where he found his footing as an artist.
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