Composition (For Jazz) 1915

Albert Gleizes made this grayscale painting "Composition (For Jazz)" and it looks like it’s all about angles and curves in conversation with each other. I can almost feel Gleizes feeling his way through this composition, moving shapes around, maybe trying to find some harmony. It's like the way jazz musicians riff off each other. Is that a guitar? Or maybe it’s more about the feeling of jazz, the syncopation and improvisation made visual. There are so many artists who were inspired by music – Kandinsky, for one – trying to find a way to make the invisible rhythms visible. Looking at this, I get a sense of the artist's hand, moving and adjusting, always searching. That search, that feeling is part of painting, of art.