Wassily Kandinsky
I’ve been looking into the work of Wassily Kadinsky, a Russian painter and art theorist and one of the great pioneers of abstract art. One of Kadinsky’s missions was to search for a new language of expression, relating to multi sensory art, or the symbiosis of arts. He gave his famous oil paintings titles such as “Yellow Sound” or “Composition 8”. In 1912, he published the famous essay “On Spirituality in Art”, and through this he showed how he was able to achieve a symbiosis of colours and very specific musical instruments in his work. For example, the symbol of yellow in his work represented the trumpet, whereas blue represented the Tuba.
I found this short video on his work interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUfBl6iIGNo