Wassily Wassilyevich Kandisky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944)
a Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"; 1911–14) and began completely abstract painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic
Kandisky, himself an accomplished musician, once said "Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul."
The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandisky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of sound. He even claimed that when he saw color he heard music – this phenomenon is called synesthesia