Music and Drawing: WCAAD Students’ Art Creation of Synesthesia

​These artworks are created by WCAAD students who are interested both in drawing and in music. Let's see how children express their feelings about music through drawing!

​Music and Drawing have a harmonious relationship in children’s art education. As music and drawing complement each other in the art world, they play a more and more crucial role in children’s early stage of development especially when these two fundamental art forms join efforts.

​Although music and drawing belong to different art genres, they form a perfect integration of auditory and visual senses in human aesthetic activities.

​Getting children drawing and playing music at the same time will introduce them to the idea of the interplay of the senses. Learning to create and appreciate aesthetics may be more important than ever to the development of the next generation of children as they grow up.  

​Come explore how music affects your children’s drawing process and how sensory perception of one kind could express itself as a sensory experience of another kind! They can interpret music in a visual form through drawing. You will be amazed to find out that children react to the music in the color choices and mark making including lines, dots, and even composition, etc. 

​There is a term called “synesthesia,” which is, to put it briefly, “the union of the senses or the interchangeability of sensory perceptions.”

​Synesthesia, by definition,is a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.

​Drawing is visual, static, and concrete, while music is auditory, flowing, and abstract. Combining these two types of art is truly fascinating, opening up a unique perspective for us to appreciate art.

​In synesthesia, there is a natural connection between our different perceptual systems, which reflects how our brain processes and interprets sensory information, as well as how different sensations interact with each other. The interaction between these sensory systems is not limited to color and temperature, but may also affect our perception of sound, taste, and even touch. 

​“Color 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.”- Kandinsky