Sailing Boats
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A row of white sails crosses a dark gray-blue water surface, their reflections dissolving beneath them. The sky above is painted in vertical strokes of gray-green and muted teal, blending into the water so that there is almost no horizon — just a dark band where the hulls sit. The sails increase in size from left to right, the largest at the far right edge. The whole painting is near-monochromatic: blue-gray, silver-white, teal-green, with the sails providing the only brightness. The vertical brushwork in the sky and the blurred reflections below give it a quality closer to music than to observation — which is consistent with how Čiurlionis worked. He structured his visual art like compositions, and this has the rhythm and repetition of a musical phrase.