Study for Iridescent Interpenetration 1912

Giacomo Balla made this study for Iridescent Interpenetration, with I’m guessing, some kind of paint, maybe gouache, maybe watercolor. The painting is bursting with long, almost geometric strokes of red, blue, green, and yellow. I'm thinking about the moment Balla made each stroke, like a series of precise, energetic gestures. Was he trying to capture the feeling of light refracting through a prism, or maybe the sensation of movement and speed? The surface looks smooth, the colors slightly bleeding into each other. I feel Balla was really trying to push painting to represent not just what we see, but how we experience the world. It reminds me a bit of Kandinsky's early experiments with abstraction, but with an Italian Futurist twist. Ultimately, this study feels like a beautiful experiment, a moment of pure visual energy captured on paper, like a snapshot of an idea in motion, a question about how colour and form can make us feel alive.