Where music meets art (pt 2)
"The Russian-born Kandinsky, a student of law and ethnography and a trained musician, came to Munich to study art in the late 1890s. By the beginning of the 1900s, his painting style was moving from traditional representation to abstract expressionism.
Kandinsky compared yellow to blares of trumpets, black to dead nothing ... "
Kandinsky and Schoenberg shared their abstract passion
(Where arts intersect and interact. The article details in brief how it was that Schoenberg turned to painting to come to terms with the harsh criticism of his music)