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A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

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Wassily Kandinsky
Age: 77 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1944
Died: January 1
Art Theorist
Artist
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lawyer
Painter
Printmaker
Teacher
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Visual Artist
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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