Paul Klee - Senecio

 

Senecio means 'head of a man going senile'.  But I think this painting depicts well the sense of discombobulation everyone has had over the last year or so.

 

I like the colours a lot.  It's hard to believe it was done almost 100 years ago.

 

Klee – An early "modern" artist

The artist Paul Klee died on this day in 1940.  This painting "Two Tents" is one of my favourites.  Klee was born in Switzerland but did much of his work in Germany.

He created about 9000 works of art – which is impressive.  Here is a selection of his work:

MOMA – New York

MOMA in New York is my second most favourite gallery – second to the Musée d’Orsay.  MOMA stands for the Museum of Modern Art. 

It houses over 150,000 artworks – so it is clearly impossible to take it all in.  There are some massive Monet Water Lilies – which have to be seen in person – you just don’t get the same impression in a small reproduction.  Some of the other most striking art from my point of view is:

Joan Miro - Hirondelle Amour

Picasso - Girl Before a Mirror

Matisse - La Danse

Van Gogh - Starry Night



Jasper Johns - Flag

Kandinsky - Painting No 200

Paul Klee - Two Tents

Mondrian - A Composition

It also has a great store where you can buy a huge range of prints and modernistic gadgets like a super iPad stand.  They do have an online site although it seemed a bit unstable when I tried it recently.