Study for ‘Winter No. II’ 1911

This is 'Study for Winter No. II,’ by Wassily Kandinsky. Looking at this painting, I can only imagine him, in the studio, with his colours and forms. Here, the houses are reduced to simple shapes beneath a sky of blues, whites and yellows. A dark blue, almost black road, runs through the town. Kandinsky’s lines feel solid and sure. I feel a sense of freedom and adventure in the loose brushstrokes and bold colours, which reminds me of my own process of creating paintings. I find myself lost in the physicality of the medium, the texture and movement. There's a sense of music in it, something he was always chasing. Kandinsky’s approach to painting echoes the practices of the expressionists and abstractionists, who embrace ambiguity as a form of creative expression. He was inspired by his predecessors, just as we are inspired by him today, in this ongoing exchange of ideas across time.