Romantic landscape 1911

Wassily Kandinsky made this painting with oil on canvas. It's full of gestural marks and energetic strokes, that come together in a dynamic, shifting landscape. I can imagine Kandinsky, brush in hand, circling around the canvas, adding strokes, subtracting them, searching for the emotional equivalent to the scene before him. There's a great passage near the top with a flurry of black dots, which feels totally intuitive. I bet he didn’t quite know where he was going with that—maybe just feeling it out! The red sun anchors the upper left, a vibrant source of energy. It makes me think of other artists, like Marsden Hartley, who found something similar in landscape. You see how artists are in this ongoing conversation, sparking ideas across time? It reminds us that painting isn't just about what we see, but how we feel and interpret the world around us.