Wassily Kandinski synesthesia condition allowed him to see colours when he heard music – and to hear music when he painted. Music and colour were bound together within his mind, and in turn, helped Kandinsky to create some of the most celebrated paintings we know today. To him, each musical note was associated with a specific colour. He stated, “…the sound of colours is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.”
https://www.dunnedwards.com/colors/specs/posts/artist-series-the-musically-colorful-world-of-wassily-kandinsky
Colour was also important spiritually to Kandinsky. He believed that art could provoke emotional, psychological and physical responses. Yellow, to Kandinsky, had the ability to disturb, while blue created an awakening of spirituality and spiritual awareness.
Composition VI, 1913, by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), oil on canvas, 195x300 cm, Russia, 20th century. By De Agostini / V. Pirozzi
Cossacks
'The ‘cossacks’ of the title are Russian cavalrymen which you can just recognise from their orange hats at the top and right of the painting. However, Wassily Kandinsky believed paintings did not need to represent the real world. He felt that emotions could be expressed through the way colours and lines were arranged in a painting. He linked musical tones to particular colours and considered colour to have a powerful spiritual impact. Can you hear music when you look at the painting??'
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kandinsky-cossacks-n04948
Kadinsky presents a more illustrative interpretation with of synesthesia than Melissa Meckrakens paintings which have a stronger focus on the focal point being on the merging of colours, rather than the geometric shapes that are presented here in Wassily Kandinsky's paintings.'
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