music to art - Kandinsky - print to pixel

Russian abstract painter and theorist. Usually regarded as the originator of abstract art. He then developed his ideas concerning the power of pure color and nonrepresentational painting. His work examines the psychological effects of color with analogies between music and art.

Kandinsky was fascinated by music's emotional power. Because music expresses itself through sound and time, it allows the listener a freedom of imagination, interpretation, and emotional response that is not based on the literal or the descriptive, but rather on the abstract quality that painting.