3.1.07
Synesthesia In Art
Kandinsky stated that his correspondences between colors and musical timbres have no "scientific" basis, but were founded upon a combination of his own personal feelings, current prevailing cultural biases, and mysticism. I like to paint to music, particularly, pop, blues and jazz. Sometimes I interpret the timbres. The objectivity is debatable, but I feel there is definitely a relationship.
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Many years ago, when I had a studio on Ossington, I was working on a painting called the New Murphy Power Plant....It had a smokestack in it, and I was painting this multicoloured toxic crap emitting from the smokestack and as I was doing it, I could smell burning toxic sludge.....I thought it was the phenomenon you were writing about....but then I realized that my roommate at the time had been making toast, and instead of popping up it was burning in a sea of flames while she talked on the phone. Damn.
I think that is part of it, scents, good and bad could be influencing the work.
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