- Schoenberg was predominantly a composer and a hugely influential musician. - As a musician he was able to understand the abstraction that was possible in art forms and was one of the pioneers of modern abstract painting. ![[Red Gaze - Arnold Schoenberg.png]] ---- A less well-known fact in the annals of abstraction is that Schoenberg, the great innovator in music, had actually accomplished an innovation in abstract painting a year earlier than Kandinsky - [[Reductionism in Art and Brain Science]]