This flower wishes to fade 1939

Paul Klee made "This flower wishes to fade" with watercolor and ink on paper. Isn’t that title wonderful? It's like the flower has agency, but it's also so vulnerable. Klee's use of watercolour is interesting, it’s translucent in places, allowing the paper to shine through. This gives the flower a delicate, almost ethereal quality. The thin black lines that define the shape of the flower seem to dance around the edges of the colour washes. Look at the tiny red mouth, so small, but so full of life. It’s a focal point, a tiny spark of vitality in an otherwise fading form. Klee's work often explored the intersection of abstraction and representation, and you can see him doing the same as other artists such as Joan Miró. The piece is a reminder that art is not about capturing reality, but about creating a new one.