Wassily Kandinsky may have had more than just paint in mind when he crafted his masterpieces. “Music – and the idea of music – appears everywhere in Kandinsky’s work… To support his colour theories, Kandinsky appealed in his manifesto to the evidence of synaesthesia, the scientific name for the condition in which the senses are confused with one another (as when someone hears the ring of a doorbell as tasting of chicken or whatever).”