Landscape with factory chimney 1910

This is Kandinsky’s ‘Landscape with Factory Chimney’, a landscape rendered with thick strokes of oil paint, a rainbow of colours, and pure feeling. Imagine Kandinsky, brush in hand, wrestling with the canvas. The red chimney asserts itself against a flurry of gestural marks. Was he trying to reconcile the industrial with the pastoral? The chimney is such a strong vertical. What does it mean to place it in a landscape? The paint is luscious, thick in places, thinner in others, each dab and stroke alive with energy. See how he lets the colours collide and blend, creating a vibrant, almost chaotic harmony? It’s like he’s inviting us to feel the landscape rather than just see it, to feel the weight of the chimney. Kandinsky's paintings talk to other artists' paintings, and to the future. Like you and me, hopefully, still thinking, still looking.