 Paul Klee, "Revolution of the Viaduct"
Forgive my gloomy mood. Between last night's near complete lack of sleep and the incessant hum of idiocy pumping out of the nation's capitol to the tune of $300 billion +, I'm not a happy camper. Which leads me in a round-about way to today's "Painting of the day."
Klee painted "Revolution of the Viaduct" in 1937. At this point in his life, he had been driven out of a professorial position at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. The Nazis accused him of making "degenerate" art. His wife convinced him for his own safety that he should move home to his native Switzerland.
Klee was able to capture a facet of his feelings about what could have rightly been the end of the world as they knew it at the time. "Revolution" encapsulates a continent that was coming apart at the seams. The social order was no more. As Douglas Hall aptly wrote, "...the analogy between formal and functional disorder could hardly be clearer."
Why am I getting that feeling of deja vu again?
6:02:20 PM 
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