Indianisch 1937

Paul Klee made this drawing called 'Indianisch' with pastel crayons, and when I look at it, I'm struck by how the colours seem to be in conversation. Imagine Klee there, maybe with a smudge of purple on his cheek, carefully placing each block of color, trying out how the soft browns and reds play off the lilacs and greens. I can picture him stepping back, squinting, and then adding those graphic black lines that seem to pull everything together like a kind of visual puzzle. There's a playful rhythm, a way of balancing abstraction and figuration that reminds me of other artists wrestling with similar questions. You can almost feel him working through it, searching for some kind of harmony in all the shapes, lines and color shifts. It's like he's inviting us to participate in his process, suggesting how artists are always in dialogue, riffing off each other's ideas across time.