Kandinsky Painted By Sound

A new exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky's art shows how the artist used his synaesthesia - the capacity to see sound and hear colour - to create the world's first truly abstract art paintings... There is still debate whether Kandinsky was himself a natural synaesthete, or merely experimenting with this confusion of senses in combination with the colour theories of Goethe, Schopenhauer and Rudolf Steiner, in order to further his vision for a new abstract art. For the full story - click the title Irish Art