Structural II 1924

Paul Klee made this structural drawing with ink and color on paper. Klee’s approach is so process-oriented, it’s all about the hand and the mark, you know? Look closely and you'll see how the surface is built up with these tiny, almost scribbled lines. It's like he's mapping out a secret world, one little square at a time. There is a real sense of touch, you can almost feel the texture of the paper and the way the ink bleeds into it. I am drawn to the upper left corner, where the dark shades shift and change with the overlaying white marks. The grid like structure suggests the architecture of a city, perhaps. Klee’s work reminds me a bit of Agnes Martin, another artist who used grids and subtle color to create these meditative, dreamlike spaces. It’s this ambiguity, this refusal to be pinned down, that makes art so endlessly fascinating, right?