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Визуалният превод на музика в изображение в творчеството на Василий Кандински
The Visual Translation of Music into Painting in Wassily Kandinsky’s work

Author(s): Aksiniya Peicheva
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, History of Art
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: abstact art; visual translation; synaesthesia; Wassily Kandinsky; interdisciplinarity; transdisciplinarity

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the relationship between painting and music in Wassily Kandinsky’s work in the context of a phenomenon, observed during the Abstract art – the ambition of many abstract artists to translate music into painting. The theory of Kandinsky, presented in “On the Spiritual in Art”, is analyzed - the different approaches he uses, incl. the method of association. The thesis that the artist had synaesthesia is analysed, as well as studies of psychologists on the impact of Kandinsky’s paintings on people with synaesthesia.

  • Issue Year: 3/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 73-79
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian