# @themcmullen on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CAXkn-KAUzK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20460310-themcmullen-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/5aca9a85f9.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-05-19T11:48:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McMullen Museum (@themcmullen) — https://gondola.cc/themcmullen

## Caption

"Mauerpflanze (Wallflower)" by Paul Klee (1879–1940) was generously loaned to theMcMullen's 2012 "Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art" by mfaboston.⠀
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Art historian Clark Poling has described this watercolor as painted not in dynamic contrasts but by way of a “series of ‘peripheral movements’ of neighbors on the color circle, like the pink, pale blue, and pale violet gradations.” Thus its technique accentuates the depiction of the stages of growth of the various vegetative forms, especially of the plant on which the picture is centered. The colors also serve to portray the sunlight essential to vegetative growth. Along with the suggestion of the plant’s root structure, the color and articulation of the figure make visible by artistic means all that belongs to vegetative genesis. Both title and image suggest a juxtaposing of natural thing and artifact; in this way the picture alludes both to the accord and to the conflict between nature and human fabrication.⠀
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