Klee once described the active line as one that thinks while it moves rather than transcribing a decision already made, and this pale teal oval seems to prove the point. The face turns three-quarters away, its near side collapsed to shorthand - two slanted brackets for a closed eye, a small coiled nostril - while a single arcing stroke on the far side handles nose-bridge and cheekbone in one unbroken thought. A head that decided, mid-drawing, to look elsewhere.
Klee once described the active line as one that thinks while it moves rather than transcribing a decision already made, and this pale teal oval seems to prove the point. The face turns three-quarters away, its near side collapsed to shorthand - two slanted brackets for a closed eye, a small coiled nostril - while a single arcing stroke on the far side handles nose-bridge and cheekbone in one unbroken thought. A head that decided, mid-drawing, to look elsewhere.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery