One of the biggest representatives of comprehensive artwork (Gesamtkunstwerk) ideal were Wagner and Skrjabin who sometimes created their work with equal and emphasized collaboration of a few art forms. Their unfinished mistery should have been the synthesis of all arts, predicting even the use of some smells. They wanted to perform their ideal of unification of all art forms mostly in theatres.

Wagners compositions, especially the ones from the later period, stand out with their rich chromatics, harmonies, and orchestrations. In that period, the use of leitmotiv was developed – theme linked to specific characters or parts of the work.

While listening to Wagner, Debussy, Skrjabin and other compositors, the idea of painting the compositions, or at least parts of them, was born. By continuous listening Ružić first discovers coloring, shapes, and composition of the picture, by which inner experience of the musical work begins. Often are the moments when some fragments persecute him until he puts them on the canvas. That's how Wagner's work Sigfried's Death inspired him to make a series of artwork as soon as he was back from hiking in the Himalayas.