http://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/story/20140904-i-see-songs-in-colour
'Wall of sound'
Ryan is far from the only artist to attempt to recreate their synaesthesia, of course. Perhaps best known is Wassily Kandinsky, whose abstract paintings were his experience of seeing music in colour, line and form. His 1911 work Impression III (Concert) was inspired by a concert in Munich at which he heard the music of Arnold Schoenberg, and while the painting has some representational elements, its vivid wash of yellow describes sound itself. Kandinsky wrote on the subject with a spiritual fervour: “Colour is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposely sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.”
'Kandinsky played the cello – an instrument that, for him, evoked a deep blue, a colour he also used heavily. Although not commonly cited as a synaesthete, it’s interesting to note that Henri Matisse described the same rich, deep blue – famously used in his Blue Nudes – as affecting the viewer like “a vigorous stroke of a gong."
Ryan is far from the only artist to attempt to recreate their synaesthesia, of course. Perhaps best known is Wassily Kandinsky, whose abstract paintings were his experience of seeing music in colour, line and form. His 1911 work Impression III (Concert) was inspired by a concert in Munich at which he heard the music of Arnold Schoenberg, and while the painting has some representational elements, its vivid wash of yellow describes sound itself. Kandinsky wrote on the subject with a spiritual fervour: “Colour is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposely sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.”
'Kandinsky played the cello – an instrument that, for him, evoked a deep blue, a colour he also used heavily. Although not commonly cited as a synaesthete, it’s interesting to note that Henri Matisse described the same rich, deep blue – famously used in his Blue Nudes – as affecting the viewer like “a vigorous stroke of a gong."
https://www.visualnews.com/2015/04/19/artist-with-synesthesia-paints-music-the-way-she-sees-it/
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/jack-coulter-meet-the-young-artist-with-synesthesia-who-hears-colour-and-saves-lives-with-his-a6856261.html
Jack Coulter
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