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As the Der Blaue Reiter Almanac essays and theorizing with composer Arnold Schoenberg indicate, Kandinsky also expressed the communion between artist and viewer as being available to both the senses and the mind ( synesthesia ).

Hearing tones and chords as he painted, Kandinsky theorized that ( for example ), yellow is the colour of middle C on a brassy trumpet ; black is the colour of closure, and the end of things ; and that combinations of colours produce vibrational frequencies, akin to chords played on a piano.

Kandinsky also developed a theory of geometric figures and their relationships — claiming, for example, that the circle is the most peaceful shape and represents the human soul.

These theories are explained in Point and Line to Plane ( see below ).