Wassily Kandinsky’s “Yellow-red-blue” (1925) is one of nearly 200 artworks and objects on display in “Kandinsky. The Music of Colors,” a new exhibition at the Philharmonie de Paris’s Musée de la Musique that explores the impact of music on his artistic vision.Credit...Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris

一幅色彩鮮豔的抽象畫，黑色的波浪線、線條和圓圈漂浮在藍色、粉紅色、黃色、綠色和紅色之間。

瓦西里·康定斯基的《黃-紅-藍》（1925年）是巴黎愛樂音樂廳音樂博物館新展「康丁斯基：色彩的音樂」中展出的近200件藝術品和物品之一，該展覽探討了音樂對其藝術視野的影響。圖片來源：蓬皮杜藝術中心，巴黎國立現代藝術博物館

By A.J. Goldmann
Oct. 21, 2025


In 1896, the 30-year-old Wassily Kandinsky attended a performance of Richard Wagner’s opera “Lohengrin” at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

1896年，30歲的瓦西里·康丁斯基在莫斯科大劇院觀看了理查德·瓦格納的歌劇《羅恩格林》。

「在精神層面，我看到了我所有的色彩——它們矗立在我的腦海裡。狂野的、近乎瘋狂的線條浮現在我眼前，」這位未來的藝術家談到初次接觸瓦格納浪漫歌劇的感受時說道。 「我清楚地意識到，」他繼續說道，「繪畫可以展現出音樂所擁有的力量。」同年，他從祖國俄羅斯搬到慕尼黑，決心學習繪畫。

“In spirit I saw all my colors — they stood in front of my mind’s eye. Wild, almost mad lines, appeared before me,” the future artist said of that first encounter with Wagner’s romantic opera. “It became quite clear to me,” he continued, “painting could develop the same powers that music possessed.” That same year, he moved from his native Russia to Munich, determined to study painting.

mind's eye

noun

Synonyms of mind's eye

: the mental faculty of conceiving imaginary or recollected scenes

used her mind's eye to create the story's setting

also : the mental picture so conceived

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"Mind's Eye" is the title of several books, including a 2010 non-fiction book by neurologist Oliver Sacks, a 1999 novel by Paul Fleischman, and a 1993 crime novel by Håkan Nesser. Another book, Mind's Eye: A War Within the Mind!, was also published more recently.  

• The Mind's Eye 

  (2010, by Oliver Sacks): A collection of case studies exploring how people adapt to visual and other sensory impairments, written by the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. 
• Mind's Eye 

  (1999, by Paul Fleischman): A historical novel based on a true story about a girl who experiences a traumatic event and uses her imagination to cope. 
• Mind's Eye 

  (1993, by Håkan Nesser): A crime novel featuring the character Inspector Van Veeteren. 
• Mind's Eye 

  (by Douglas E. Richards): A science fiction novel with a "near future" concept that features themes of deception and warfare. 
• Mind's Eye: A War Within the Mind! 

  (by [Author Name]): A young adult novel published in 2023, as seen on Amazon.