Work:

I chose Senecio, which was a piece done in 1922 when he was at Bauhaus. Done after his revelation with color, the piece uses various colors and his signature rectangular shapes. The reds, oranges, and yellows work together to give the painting a warm feeling, with the blue in the neck and darker color in the shirt anchoring it down. It’s also is reminiscent of a child’s painting, due to the subject’s round face and simple features. Klee’s humor shows with the face looking like it has an eyebrow raised.

I selected this piece because I thought it had a lot of characteristics associated with Klee’s work in his mature years, thus being representative of his style as an artist. It has a layered and thought out combination of colors, simplistic shapes and lines, and a humorous subject.