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The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art Comic & Graphic Novel Literary Criticism • Artwork on cards isVasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowerslike a proper artist. But as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the reds, the yellows, the blues, he heard a strange soundthe swirling colors trilled like an orchestra tuning up for a symphony! And as he grew