Day two hundred and forty-five: Today a visiting artist asked to study a painting on paper by the Swiss artist Paul Klee (1879-1940), whose work explored cubism, expressionism, and surrealism at different times. My sketch here is inspired by Fermata, painted by Klee during a brief period in the early 1930s. The original is much more refined in many ways, but especially in the repetitive spots. As I mimicked them to the best of my ability and in the time available, I realized that the variety of colors are not random, but carefully chosen to lend depth and tone to the background. The red circles that float over the surface seem to allude to Klee’s time working and teaching at the Bauhaus, shortly before he painted Fermata. I’m not sure whether it’s my computer, my color choices, or both, but working on this made my eyes feel a little dizzy.
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