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Does sound have color? Does color have sound? Evidently the answer is a resounding YES! At least it was to Vasily (Vasya) Kandinsky.
The Noisy Paint Box: The Color and Sounds Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock is a short biography about Kandinsky. It begins with his life in Russia as a child, learning all he should to be properly educated. And life went on without much excitement. Until his aunt gave him a little paint box. Explaining and showing Vasya how to correctly mix paints, educating him on how to appreciate art, something happened. Vasya began to hear things - a whisper, a hiss. No one else heard them, though. The more he mixed colors, the more he painted, the more he heard and the more he saw. But everyone thought he was being silly.
When painting what he heard, Vasya was happy. Others around him thought he should paint properly, with houses and flowers. Or for him to do his schoolwork, his math. So Vasya tried to be who they wanted. Until one day . . . That day he saw the sounds of a symphony - crashing, stomping, caroling, thundering . . . And he knew he had
The struggle to show the sounds was one Kandinsky lived with. But he learned to be true to who he was and what he saw. He learned to ask people "how does it make you feel?" And then they would be closer to understanding.
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