1997.89 Paul Klee, Around the Core

Around the Core is consonant with Paul Klee's work both thematically and formally. A single line spins inward towards the teardrop shaped kernel and then coils outward again creating a sense of movement. Klee's image  depicts at once a galaxy and a core of a fruit. Themes of genesis, growth, and gestation are recurrent in the artist's work. In his late work and especially after being diagnosed with a life threatening autoimmune disease in 1935, Klee became increasingly obsessed with the cycles of life and death and seemingly convinced of the ultimate resilience of the life-force. Also characteristic of Klee's late work, is the directness with which he paints, the immediacy evident in the simplified technique, his eschewal of minute detail. 

DMA unpublished material.

Oil and mixed media on burlap mounted on board

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