Yellow-Red-Blue. No. 314 Wassily Kandinsky

2. There's more to this painting than just a theory of color...

3. ...this turns out to be a small instrumental work.

4-Kandinsky heard high trumpet notes as lemon yellow...

5-... and in shades of blue he heard... Flutes (light blue). Cello (dark blue). Double bass (deeper blue) and A deep organ (deep, solemn blue)...

6-...and isn't that a piano we can hear?

7-Forms and colors were for him the keys ad strings of an instrument. As a child, Kandinsky learned to play the piano and the cello. A trained lawyer, he adored music and gave homage to it by giving h

8-An extraordinary gifted artist, he arranged "color sounds" into "color symphonies."

9-Kandinsky was following the color theory of the German poet Goethe, according to which yellow and blue, which he has placed here in powerful opposition to each other.

10-Between them he has put red to cool the conflict. The bright warmth of red made him think of fanfares. Vermillion of a tuba!

Blue was for him the feminine counterpart...And the circle the feminine form.

13-Red was for him the masculine color and the square the masculine form

14-The character of the colors reflected for him the harmonies and dissonances of a melody.

15-When Kandinsky painted his first abstract pictures, the critics thought he was insane. But all he wanted to do was the touch the human soul.

16-And can't you just feel the small symphony in "Yellow-Red-Blue?"