{"id":1065,"date":"2014-08-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsmb-art.com\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:18:50","slug":"symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Symphony. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).
\n
\nKandinsky is believed to have had synaesthesia, a harmless condition that allows a person to appreciate sounds, colours or words with two or more senses simultaneously. In his case, colours and painted marks triggered particular sounds or musical notes and vice versa.
\n
\nThe idea that music is linked to visual art goes back to ancient Greece, when Plato first talked of tone and harmony in relation to art. The spectrum of colours, like the language of musical notation, has long been arranged in stepped scales, Beethoven, who called B minor the black key and D major the orange key, or Schubert, who saw E minor as “a maiden robed in white with a rose-red bow on her chest”.
\n
\nThe artist explored these sensations in unconventional, artistic ways. Conceived for the theatre, Kandinsky created experimental performance-based expressions of synesthesia\u2013The Yellow Sound being the most famous\u2013which utilized original musical scores, lighting, and various media to explore prevalent color theories of the time.
\n
\nMusic played an important role in the development of Kandinsky\u2019s abstract paintings. The famous Viennese composer Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg was one influence. Sch\u00f6nberg abandoned tonal and harmonic conventions in his compositions the same way that Kandinsky rejected the figure or recognizable object in favor of shapes, lines, and discordant colors in his work. He deployed color, line, shape, and texture to create a rhythmic visual experience that evoked an emotional response. Not surprisingly, Kandinsky gave many of his paintings musical titles, such as Composition or Improvisation.
\n
\nFor Kandinsky, color also had the ability to put viewers in touch with their spiritual selves. He believed that yellow could disturb, while blue awakened the highest spiritual aspirations. Just a year before he painted Fragment 2 for Composition VII, Kandinsky wrote Concerning the Spiritual in Art. An important statement of Kandinsky\u2019s theories on art\u2019s potential to evoke psychological, physical, and emotional responses, the treatise is considered the first theoretical foundation of abstraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Shown at<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF)<\/a>, NRG Center, Houston, 9\u201312 September 2015<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Symphony. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm). \u00a9 2014 Florencia San Martin Br\u00fcck\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fsmb_year":"2014","fsmb_venue":"","fsmb_medium":"Oil on canvas, 120 \u00d7 100 cm","fsmb_collection":"Met\u00e1fora","fsmb_exhibition":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metafora","category-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7363,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/7363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}