As artists shared inspiration across the varying artistic mediums, some painters like Wassily Kandinsky and James Whistler recognized the special invisible language of music and wished to incorporate that essence into their paintings. They desired that ability to create and define something invisible. For Kandinsky, this rested in finding the spiritual aura of color. To him, color had a physical effect on the viewer through the visual vibrancy of the color, but also a spiritual effect that somehow reached the inner emotion of the viewer. The painter could use red to suggest anger like the musician might use quick, loud chords to suggest the same emotion. The painter moved away from the necessity to describe and accurately represent an image, and moved more toward desiring to portray emotion and the spiritual invisible language of music.
“The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental” –Wassily Kandinsky (qtd. in Genn).
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