Magic Garden
Oil on Plaster-filled Wire Mesh
1926, 52.9cm x 44.9cm
Peggy Guggenheim Collection

     The painting surface Klee creates with the plaster and mesh for Magic Garden resembles that of a primordial substance.This painting is different from many of his other works, because Klee was a prolific artist, making more than a thousand paintings and he was always experimenting. Here he creates a texture for his cosmic landscape with orbits of planets and nuclei of organic cells. Klee's statements about this work is full of humor; he writes of his work: 'Ethical gravity rules, along with hobgoblin laughter at the learned ones.'

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