![]() In the case of Kandinsky, his vision and his sense of hearing were associated in such a way that he would hear sounds when seeing colours or shapes, and vice versa. Can you also tell us a little about synaesthesia and what the person dealing with this disorder goes through?ĪB: Synaesthesia is a union between two or more senses. This record collection, which is now part of the Centre Pompidou collection, became the starting point of my composition and investigation of what he might have heard when painting Yellow-Red-Blue in 1925. I also explored the music collection that was found in his artist studio, which belonged to him and is partner, Nina. SD: Can you tell us about the research you conducted for Play A Kandinsky?ĪB: I plunged into Kandinsky’s writings such as Point and Line to Plane in which he describes in amazing details the nature and role of each element in his compositions how he composed paintings similar to the ways in which a composer creates music. ‘Playing’ the painting produces complex sounds that evoke various emotions, from heavenliness and rage to restlessness, and stillness.Ĭomposition 7 Image: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Google Arts & Culture has captured what Kandinsky might have heard when painting his 1925 masterpiece, titled Yellow-Red-Blue, in an interactive artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Play a Kandinsky.Ī project developed by Google Arts & Culture in collaboration with Centre Pompidou in Paris, Play a Kandinsky uses machine learning and Kandinsky’s colour theories to enable experiencing synaesthesia by ‘playing’ the painting Yellow-Red-Blue, which comprises a riot of colours, squares, circles, and triangles along with abstract forms, straight and curved lines, arcs and checkerboards. ![]() He associated, for example, trumpets with yellow, the pipe organ with blue, and the violin with red. Twentieth century Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky, said to be one of the founders of abstract art, heard sound in colours and shapes due to a neurological condition called synaesthesia.
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