Wassily Kandinsky: Composition VI (1913)

By Michael J.W. Stickings

From time to time, and often for no apparent reason, I post art at The Reaction -- and this is one of Kandinsky's most amazing works. St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, where it's housed, describes it thusly: "Swirling piles of matter run riot like waves; lit up by flashes of lightning and soaked in thundery showers, they create an impression of universal catastrophe."

And it seems oddly appropriate today as a representation of our time, of our world.

Depressing that may be, but submerge yourself in this as in all of Kandinsky's works. Our world has gone mad, but it's been mad before, and perhaps the forces that are driving us to "universal catastrophe" are also the forces that can save us from it.

Perhaps.