Sinestezijos Samprata Vasilijaus Kandinskio Kūryboje
The Concept of Synesthesia in the Creative Works of Wassily Kandinsky

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the concept of synesthesia by the originator of abstract painting Wassily Kandinsky. It explicates the close relations between Kandinsky’s abstractionist attitudes and theory of synesthesia. Abstract painting produces universal model of synesthesia, which expresses the formalistic tendencies of Western synesthesia, subsumes the modernist intensions of synesthetic aesthetics and serves as the starting point for many postmodern art works. Kandinsky builds his concept of art on the basis of synesthesia, which expresses the unique identity of all arts and their common structure, e. g. combination of colors produce vibrational frequencies, akin to chords on a piano, and so on. Kandinsky was preoccupied with the concept of painting’s purity, which enables connection of music and painting on metaphysical level. In his theoretical works Kandinsky expresses and generalises his synesthetic experience more freely than in his artistic works.

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