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![]() Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors-and bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from his noisy paint box.īackmatter includes four paintings by Kandinsky, an author’s note, sources, links to websites on synesthesia and abstract art. In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPré tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art. But was Vasya brave enough to put aside his proper still lifes and portraits and paint. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers-like a proper artist.īut as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the reds, the yellows, the blues, he heard a strange sound-the swirling colors trilled like an orchestra tuning up for a symphony! And as he grew older, he continued to hear brilliant colors singing and see vibrant sounds dancing. ![]() ![]() Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. How a boy who heard colors created abstract art.Book Trailer for The Noisy Paint Box The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract ArtBy Barb RosenstockIllu. ![]()
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