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March 2009, vol 5 no 1
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Bruce Ross Paul Klee An incidental part of our trip to Switzerland was a visit to the Paul Klee Museum in Berne. I've been fascinated for a long time with his magical abstractions and haunting color combinations, the delicate patterning and shading of an imaginary Egyptian pyramid or the cartoon-like hunter-gatherer stick figures based on a fanciful petroglyph scene. When I studied him in detail I was struck by his haunting self-portraits. train tunnel I study the reflection of my face I was disappointed with the Berne museum because its rotating exhibit featured Klee's floral themes with very few of the images that delighted me. However, earlier in another city in a small museum of modern Swiss art in a corner of an upper floor back room were three faded watercolors of Klee. early Klee drawing around the chiaroscuro lake simple pines |