May Picture
alt text
A soft patchwork of muted spring colors, rectangular, 12 X 14 inner squares. The edges are soft, the painting seems more the comfort of spring, rather than jubilation. Also, it is a torso.
This is a portrait show, so now I see the torso.
#painting #PaulKlee May Picture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
#painting #PaulKlee May Picture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...
- 504 Views
- 2 Saves
- 21 Likes
Post URL
https://stage.mltshp.com/p/1RR0J
“…The Face of Modern Life also offers works that are not so much reproductions of a person’s form as they are impressions based on the texture of experience and emotional temperature. Among these are Paul Klee’s May Picture and Vasily Kandinsky’s Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II). Said to be inspired by a garden, May Picture offers an array of dreamy squares in soft colors, while Garden of Love offers vestiges of a central sun and several human figures that have been pushed toward illegibility.
“The Klee and the Kandinsky are paintings what we could easily call abstract compositions, not portraits in a traditional way but direct aesthetic experiences,” said D’Alessandro.”