If you have chosen this picture, it's by PAUL KLEEand it's titled "Visual Music".
This rich quilt of pattern and color is a 1922 painting by the German-Swiss artist Paul Klee, a master of the playful and inventive, an artist who sometimes used materials in unconventional ways. He is best known for compositions that appeal to the eye with a light-hearted use of color and line - one of his most delightful is 'The Twittering Machine' at the NY Museum of Modern Art where a line of birds seem to 'twitter' as the handle of a humorously drawn machine is turned. Klee was a talented violinist, married to a pianist, and like his contemporary Kandinsky, created work that evokes the harmonies of music through color, line, and form. It is a sad comment on the times he lived through that even his work, innocent as it appears, was given the label of 'degenerate' by the Nazis. He taught at the celebrated Bauhaus school in Germany until he was forced into exile. As you would expect, his late work is darker and can contain a deeper sense of the malevolent.
"The twittering machine" by Paul Klee.
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