> I think Mondrian and Kandinsky are good representatives, both express >links to music and structure, in particular with Kandinsky's theories >(see his book, Point and Line to Plane).
Kandinsky was a russian artist but the russians hated him because they were all gung-ho proletariet socialists and had really strong opinions about what should be considered art (i.e. suprematist and constructivist movements fronted by kasmir maleavich). Kandinsky was into more expressionist stuff that the russians considered totally frivolous, so he ended up spending most of his life in germany. But what I thought was coolest thing about his work was trying to capture music and sound in painting. he also did some work with russian comoposer Alexander Scriabin. Scriabin had some really interesting ideas and for a while was trying to create music that crossed the human senses. sounds that invoked a sense of color rather than sound- i.e. controlled synesthesia. he also started a project to build a big color organ that played lights along w/notes - like from the end of Close Encounters movie except some 50 years earlier. I'm not even all that familiar w/ his music, but he had some really interesting ideas and theories- would recommend looking him up sometime. -p
