Monoprint on archival paper.
This monoprint is based on Kandinsky’s Yellow-Red-Blue (1925), now in Paris, at the Centre Georges Pompidou. Unlike the monoprint, Kandinsky’s painting’s geometry, color, flow, and abstract shapes are evocative of grapheme-color synesthesia. Indeed, it seems to suggest a person experiencing vivid ‘synesthetic’ imagery.
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Amy Ione
Title: Kandinsky’s Brain: A Monochromatic Improvisation of Yellow-Red-Blue
Date: 2003
Medium: Monoprint
Dimensions: Print measures 5 inches square. With frame, measures 12x16inches.
Unsigned
Catalog Number: 27003
Exhibitions
2011
Moods and Variations, Au Coquelet, Berkeley CA. June 1—June 30.
2008-2009
Perceptual Ruminations. Gaia Art Center, Berkeley Art Center, October 2008—March 2009
2007
Looking Back, Au Coquelet, Berkeley, February 1—28.
2004
Perceptual Notations, YWCA at the University of California, Berkeley. May/June.
See also
Ione, A. and Tyler C.W. (2004) “Synesthesia: Is F-Sharp Colored Violet?” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 58–65.
Ione, A. and Tyler C.W. (2003) “Was Kandinsky a Synesthete?“Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 223–226.