Reflection

It may be that my artistic talent is absolutely terrible, but I believe recreating his work digitally cannot do Klee justice. The lines you can draw digitally are too clean, in a sense. There is a desperation in Death and Fire on cloth. The medium on which he used oils also helps to build the image and art. Meanwhile, a digital recreation can only hope to emulate that sort of desperation. Sure, I can draw thick lines, but they don't really capture the same emotions Klee's thick lines capture. The fact that it was created digitally already takes away from the meaning. Though it may not have been deliberate, Klee's choice to use cloth, to me, was like a last wish. If I were to do it again, I'd probably actually try to recreate the cloth texturel, but that would require more Photoshop knowledge on my part. Also, my color choices here were probably too bright and cheerful for the subject matter. However, in the process of recreating Klee's work, I experienced a bit of what Shahn called the inner critic and the artist working together. I had to deliberate on how to showcase Klee's work again in a way that others would be able to recognize Klee in my recreation.