Synaesthesia which is where all of your senses become mixed up and when you listen to music you think you can see a picture of colours and shapes. Wassily used these images he saw and turned them into art work.
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Tone-colour Synaesthesia. Tone-Colour Synaesthesia is when a person listenes to music and a certain colour will come to mind. People often disagree on which colour certain sounds are as its different for everybody.
kandinsky had autism that had many things to do with his work and hw abstact it it was
I do not think Kandinsky is known under any other name, because Wassily Kandinsky is his real name. When he signed his pictures he wrote 'Kandinsky'.
Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky are two different persons.
It is generally accepted that Wassily Kandinsky was the first abstract painter and in that, he was very much ahead of his time.A short and typical quote by Kandinsky himself: "The artist must train not only his eye, but his soul"from: "On the Spiritual In Art", Wassily Kandinsky, 1912More quotes by Kandinsky may be found using the link.
There is no definite answer as to why Kandinsky painted 'Black and Violet.' However, there is a common theory that he had synesthesia. Along with that, he claimed he heard music when painting, so that may have translated to him 'hearing' black and violet leading to creating the painting.
Wassily Kandinsky is an importnant historical artist because he was modernistic