Foehn Wind in Marc's Garden 1915

Paul Klee made "Foehn Wind in Marc's Garden" with watercolor; it feels like a fleeting moment captured in pigment. Klee’s garden teeters between abstraction and representation, a stack of colored shapes suggesting both the natural world and something entirely invented. There is a sense of the alchemical in the way Klee combines colors. Washes of lavender and rose, umber and forest green, coalesce into a landscape that is at once familiar and otherworldly. It's as if Klee let the colors mix and mingle on the page, embracing the unpredictable nature of watercolor. Look at that small, intense red rectangle. Perched in the middle of the image, it anchors the composition and injects a jolt of energy into the dreamlike scene. Klee reminds me of Joan Miró, who had a similar knack for distilling complex emotions into simple, evocative forms. Like Miró, Klee understood that art is not about representing reality but about creating a new one.