Wassily Kandinsky who had been fascinated with colours since an early age created an oil painting, Composition VIII, in the Abstract style. This artwork consists of circles, grids, rectangles, semicircles, triangles, other mathematical forms, colours, straight and curved lines set against a background of cream that melds at certain points into areas of pale blue. He wished to explore an interrelation between sound and colour similar to how a musician composes a song.