Flora on rocks Sun 1940

Paul Klee made this painting, Flora on rocks Sun, with oil paint, pushing and pulling at the surface to find figuration in the abstract. It’s a dance, right? Klee layers these warm, earthy colours – oranges and reds, with touches of purple. Look closely and you’ll see how the paint seems scrubbed into the canvas, creating a gritty texture, with these dark calligraphic lines floating on top. I think there is freedom in allowing yourself to work intuitively like this, letting the marks guide you, instead of trying to force an image. See the little sun shape? It almost looks like a tiny, radiant flower. Klee reminds me a bit of Miro, with his playful, dreamlike imagery and the way he blurs the line between abstraction and representation. Both artists invite us to see the world with childlike wonder, finding poetry in the everyday. For Klee, art wasn’t about answers, but about endless possibilities.