#chaos
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Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913
According to Wikipedia he spent months on more than thirty studies for this, then put the final thing down in about three or four days. The experts apparently read the Flood and Judgment Day into it — though nobody seems to claim you're actually supposed to be able to see them.
Erisava: Is there actually something in here, or is it just random shapes and colours?
The Fall of the Damned by Peter Paul Rubens, 1621
Bavarian State Painting Collections · wikidata.org
Public domain
This one used to go by another name too — 'The Fall of the Rebel Angels.' What's happening is the archangel Michael and his angels hurling a crowd of the damned down into the abyss. Apparently it was painted as an altarpiece, which feels like a lot to put behind a church service.
Erisava: It took me a while to tell who's falling and who's still trying to climb up.