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May Picture

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.
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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...
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nikkuneko pro Yesterday
this painting was my work machine desktop for many years!
Xedrik Yesterday
I'm really trying to see a torso, but I can't. Maybe this is related to my inability to see Magic Eye pictures? Is there part of a head or face at all, or is it just shoulders down? I really want my brain to be able to click on this.
joost Yesterday
@Xedrik the Met link doesn't mention a torso at all https://www.metmuseum.org/art...
0y3ahSansAcut3 Yesterday
This image is in a portrait show. The lightesy parts of the image are the top of the breast, there is shadow underneath. A very subtle portrait.
bezt pro Yesterday
Folks see what they see, but from the linked Guardian article:

“…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.”

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