Lithographie ‘Blau’ 1922

Wassily Kandinsky made this lithograph, called ‘Blau,’ and I really get a kick out of the free-wheeling spirit of it. Just imagine him there, maybe listening to some Scriabin, letting his mind go blank as he placed these various abstract shapes on the page. There’s the severe black circle up top, but then these crazy little free-form wiggly lines down below. And all of these confident diagonals shooting across the picture plane! It looks like a conversation between geometry and improvisation. Like he’s searching for something, but not in a serious way. It's like he’s having a dialogue with other artists, like Paul Klee or Joan Miró, trying to figure out what a painting could be. It’s like, if you just keep making stuff, you'll figure something out.