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TAGS

• chaos
• color
• flowers
• scratches
• black lines
• abstract

I have no idea what this is, so these are sort of "first impression" tags rather than "eduacated" tags.

If I look at the description I pick out some better more edumacated words:

• "black lines" is the title so clearly I'm a genius, or maybe I saw that earlier
• ovals
• painterly (ha! So much better than the Frick)
• graphic
• color
• floating
• abstraction

The following terms would not lead me to this painting:

• chaos
• flowers
• scratches

But let's be honest--whose vocabulary is so precise that they would type "floating abstraction" into the search box? The people who already know the painting's name, right? So what are the people who use simplistic terms like "chaos" going to come up with? four objects from the entire Guggenheim Collection. It's like they KNOW better than to use that word.

Abstract paintings are hard.

This is Black Lines, December 1913. Oil on canvas, 51 x 51 5/8 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim. 37.241. Vasily Kandinskysource