Blue mountain 1908

Wassily Kandinsky made ‘Blue Mountain’ with oil paint on canvas, but when? Who knows! The way he’s dabbed and stroked the paint feels, well, kind of urgent. Look how he's built the painting up from small marks, letting each one sit next to another. The colors are so vibrant, almost shouting at each other—the yellow trees, the titular blue mountain, the blobby forms. It's like he's trying to capture a feeling more than a place. I like the way Kandinsky's let the paint do its thing here. Those little dots of color create a kind of vibrating energy, don't they? It reminds me of Gauguin and the way he'd use color to evoke a mood. This feels like a moment, not a story, and it's a conversation with the history of painting. It’s a reminder that art doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to make you feel something.