Two Red Flowers (Zwei rote Blüten)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

In this luminous watercolor, two red, tulip-like flowers blossom within a field of multicolored, stippled polygonal shapes separated by calligraphic black lines. Created near the end of Klee's tenure at the Bauhaus, the famous German design school that had sought to unite architecture, fine arts, and crafts, Two Red Flowers can be interpreted as a totalizing work of art. Klee drew upon Gestalt psychology to construct the scene out of a series of expanding and contracting surfaces.

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