Louisa Chase/Disney's 'Fantasia', 1940/The Futurists/Kandinsky

What do they all have as common ground?
Music.

I'll explain in the form of a flow chart:

LOUISA CHASE, 'EMERALD SEA'

(photo from book)

I described this painting as an 'orchestra of colours and marks', which then led me to...

WALT DISNEY'S 'FANTASIA' 1940 (FILM STILLS)

Galaxy

Violin bows

The orchestra in this selection of stills (the rest are in my book) are visualised through similar marks found in 'Emerald Sea' - franticly organised, like the notation of music itself.
This then led me to...

FUTURISM: 'MUSICA', RUSSOLO

Like musical notation, the orthogonals are almost like staves, ribboning and meandering across the canvas in the form of a blue line. The title 'Musica' is so called because Futurists were obssessed and gripped by the notion of evoking sound in their paintings.

This finally led me to...

'IMPROVISATION 28', KANDINSKY

Kandinsky was also known for his interest in combining music and art: it is no wonder why his pieces like 'Improvisation 28' were also called compositions. Kandinsky is one of my favourite artists because of this (as a musician), his works are almost like graphic scores, bursting with a sensation of freedom and deep expression.

My Kandinsky page (from Guggenheim gallery page, part of New York pages from my book)