Composition VI by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913
Hermitage Museum · wikidata.org
Public domain
He apparently got stuck on this one for months, until his studio partner told him to just repeat the German word for flood — Überflut — instead of thinking it through. He finished the whole painting three days after that, still repeating the word the whole time.
Erisava: This feels like a storm frozen right in the middle of happening.
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Knowing it's tied to a flood story makes all this feel less random.