Synaesthesia
Posted: 19 Aug 2017 00:05
Synaesthesia (or synesthesial) is neurological condition in which the stimulation of a sense
(like touch or hearing) leads involuntarily to triggering of another sense (like sight or taste).
A person with synaesthesia might see the colour blue when they hear the word 'fish' or, as in
mirror-touch synaesthesia, they would feel a physical sense of touch on their own bodies
when they witness touch to other people or objects. This inter-sensory mixing is caused when
the brain uses the resources usually used for seeing for other senses.
People with synaesthesia tend to be drawn to towards the creative arts and some artists have
explored the concept in their works, like the Russian abstract artist Wassily Kardinsky, who
had an interest in visualising music in his paintings. In th film 'Sensorium' Tests which explores
mirror-touch synaesthesia, the contemporary artist Daria Martin challenges the idea that the
act of looking is a passive experience.
Famous people with synaesthesia;
Wassily Kandinsky
His abstract paintings are pleasantly intricate and perhaps literally resounding.
Wassily had synaesthesia.He wrote:
Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.
The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Painting -Yellow-Red-Blue 1925
By Van Gogh
Marilyn Monroe
Normal Mailers bio of her "she has a displacement of the senses that others take drugs to find.
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix trusted his synaesthesia. He liked to describe chords and harmonies as colours.
W.A.Mozart
Some musicians and composers have a form of synaesthesia that allows them to hear music as
colours. Mozart is said to have this form of synaesthesia.
Stevie Wonder
Sound-colour
Pythagoras
"Each number had its own personality-masculine or famine,perfect or incomplete, beautiful of
ugly.
Vincent Van Gogh
He was believed to have synaesthesia for some time, in part due to the modern belief that he had
Asperfer's Syndrome which is often linked to the trail of blended senses.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/synaesthesia
(like touch or hearing) leads involuntarily to triggering of another sense (like sight or taste).
A person with synaesthesia might see the colour blue when they hear the word 'fish' or, as in
mirror-touch synaesthesia, they would feel a physical sense of touch on their own bodies
when they witness touch to other people or objects. This inter-sensory mixing is caused when
the brain uses the resources usually used for seeing for other senses.
People with synaesthesia tend to be drawn to towards the creative arts and some artists have
explored the concept in their works, like the Russian abstract artist Wassily Kardinsky, who
had an interest in visualising music in his paintings. In th film 'Sensorium' Tests which explores
mirror-touch synaesthesia, the contemporary artist Daria Martin challenges the idea that the
act of looking is a passive experience.
Famous people with synaesthesia;
Wassily Kandinsky
His abstract paintings are pleasantly intricate and perhaps literally resounding.
Wassily had synaesthesia.He wrote:
Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings.
The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Painting -Yellow-Red-Blue 1925
By Van Gogh
Marilyn Monroe
Normal Mailers bio of her "she has a displacement of the senses that others take drugs to find.
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix trusted his synaesthesia. He liked to describe chords and harmonies as colours.
W.A.Mozart
Some musicians and composers have a form of synaesthesia that allows them to hear music as
colours. Mozart is said to have this form of synaesthesia.
Stevie Wonder
Sound-colour
Pythagoras
"Each number had its own personality-masculine or famine,perfect or incomplete, beautiful of
ugly.
Vincent Van Gogh
He was believed to have synaesthesia for some time, in part due to the modern belief that he had
Asperfer's Syndrome which is often linked to the trail of blended senses.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/synaesthesia