Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

Synesthesia is a “neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme or color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities.”

Question: Which famous painter was known for creating a list of colors and linking them to the sounds of individual instruments? Whereby warmer colors were said to posses greater movement than cooler tones; red rings like a strong trumpet, where blue sounds like an organ.

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To learn more about synethesia, you can read the story one of our local news stations ran titled, When you can taste colors, feel time as space.

**polls close next Tuesday, 6/16/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #1; Acrylic