拍品专文
Park mit dem kühlen Halbmond belongs to a series of works devoted to gardens and parks which spans Klee's entire career. Painted during his years at the Bauhaus in Dessau, the present picture exemplifies the artist's research into the patterns and principles underlying organic existence. The orderly divisions and serried rows of flowerbeds in parks and gardens perfectly combined Klee's interest in nature and in rhythmically coherent formal structures. In short, they afforded a ready-made example of the vagaries of nature conforming to the strict and disciplined laws of the abstract art of architecture.
Klee used an unusual and complex technique in the execution of Park mit dem kühlen Halbmond. First he covered the sides of the board with layers of gauze and applied thick gesso to the front with a spatula. Cut-out pieces of gauze were then inserted and held in place with wet gesso. The result is a richly-textured, relief effect which enhances the patchwork rhythm of the forms.
Klee used an unusual and complex technique in the execution of Park mit dem kühlen Halbmond. First he covered the sides of the board with layers of gauze and applied thick gesso to the front with a spatula. Cut-out pieces of gauze were then inserted and held in place with wet gesso. The result is a richly-textured, relief effect which enhances the patchwork rhythm of the forms.