“Thinking,” an artwork created by Nicholas Roerich in 1918, belongs to the Symbolism movement and falls under the genre of landscape art. This piece is currently held in a private collection.
The artwork presents an expansive landscape dominated by muted green and blue hues. The foreground features rugged terrain with scattered rocks, leading into a vast, undulating expanse of land. The background is composed of distant hills and valleys enveloped in shades of blue, merging seamlessly into the sky. Above, the sky is punctuated by stylized clouds, with one cloud notably taking the form of a reclining figure, invoking a sense of contemplation and introspection that aligns with the title “Thinking.” The composition and color palette evoke a serene, meditative atmosphere, characteristic of Roerich’s symbolic and mystical approach to landscape painting.
