Drawing after ‘Blauer Fleck 1913

This drawing after ‘Blauer Fleck’ was made by Wassily Kandinsky, and is a real frenzy of ink on paper. You can almost see him hunched over, right? Letting the ink splatter, then reacting with a flurry of lines, this way and that. I imagine Kandinsky had music on, maybe something wild, and he’s just letting the pen fly. It's all instinct. Look at how the black pools and bleeds. Then these quick, nervous lines shooting out like sparks. He’s pushing the boundaries of representation. He’s not trying to paint something we already know; he’s trying to make something new. And in a way it reminds me of a Cy Twombly, all these scratches. Though Kandinsky is perhaps more… uptight? He's trying to control chaos, while Twombly just lets it all hang out. It’s like they’re having a conversation across time, these painters, pushing each other, daring each other to go further.