Offset lithograph, 250 weight satin paper, 80 x 60 cm, on the back round stamp "OXIMORON Talleres Graficos Ibero - A,ericanos" and typographically "CERTIFIES THE INTERNATIONAL ART. COLLECTIVE" , the work is framed in a black frame
Vassily Kandinsky's painting titled "Study of Color" (German: Farbige Studien), which shows multicolored circles, is one of his most recognizable works. It is also often called "Circles in a Circle" or "Color Study: squares with concentric circles" ( Farbstudie - Quadrate mit konzentrischen Ringen).
For Wassily Kandinsky, music and color were inextricably linked. This relationship was so clear that Kandinsky associated each note with a particular hue. He once said: "the sound of colors is so distinct that it would be difficult to find someone who would express bright yellow with bass tones or a dark lake with treble tones."
In fact, after an unusually visual reaction to a performance of Wagner's composition Lohengrin at the Bolshoi Theater, he left his legal career to study painting at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He later described this life-changing experience: "I saw all my colors in the spirit before my eyes. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me."
Music played an important role in the development of Kandinsky's abstract paintings. The famous Viennese composer Arnold Schönberg was one of his influences. Schönberg abandoned tonal and harmonic conventions in his compositions in the same way that Kandinsky rejected the figure or recognizable object in favor of shapes, lines and disharmonious colors in his work. He used color, line, shape and texture to create a rhythmic visual experience that evoked an emotional response,
This painting is in the collection of the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich (Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus), which has one of the largest collections of works by Kandinsky and other artists associated with the Der Blaue Reiter group.
Lenbachhaus in Munich is a very significant institution for modernist art, especially Expressionism and the work of Kandinsky, who was associated with the city for many years.
The neurological phenomenon Kandinsky experienced is called synesthesia (or "combined perception," from the Greek word syn meaning "to combine" and aisthesis meaning "perception"). It is a very rare but real condition in which one sense, such as hearing, simultaneously activates another sense, such as sight. Kandinsky literally saw colors when he heard music and heard music when he painted. To honor Kandinsky, the Centre Pompidou in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture decided to "read" the sounds hidden on the canvas. Musicians Antoine Bertin and NSDOS, with the help of artificial intelligence, used Kandinsky's theoretical texts to translate the composition's components into melody. On the project's website, we can discover what the different parts of the painting would sound like and what emotions they carried for us according to Kandinsky.
