Yesterday I attended my first ARLIS meeting, held at COFA. We were shown an interesting exhibition with paintings by Australian Modernists Roy de Maistre and Roland Wakelin, based on de Maistre’s colour-music theory. Colour music theory was a means of colour harmonisation based on a correlation between the colours of the spectrum (Red,Orange, Yellow Green Blue Indigo and Violet) and notes of the musical scale (ABCDEFG). De Maistre created colour keyboards, scales, wheels and studies, which were then used to produce abstract works. The results culminated in the Colour in Art exhibition in Sydney in 1919. This exhibition called Colour in Art – Revisiting 1919 exhibits de Maistre and Wakelin’s colour-music paintings and studies from 1918 to the mid 1930s.
If you are interested here is a link I found about Colour-music theory

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~colmusic/maistre.htm

Mandy