KANDINSKY, THE COLORS OF SOUNDS

Kandinsky’s astonishment one evening in 1896 at a Wagner opera at the Bolshoi in Moscow was a revelation: the musical experience stimulated visual sensations that affected him deeply…A precursor of abstract painting Kandinsky was also one of its most brilliant theorists devisingtotally innovative concepts about the use of color and shape… Progressing through Kandinsky’s body of work in a constant dialogue between painting and music the film offers an illuminating re-reading of his creative output.