senecio scheepvaartmuseum There is something in it

There is something in it that stays with you

The painting shows a city that never existed: towers and walls made of triangles

The warm colors – ochre

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This iconic work was shown at the very first Impressionist exhibition in 1874

senecio scheepvaartmuseum There is something in itPaul Klee painted Senecio in 1922 while working at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar. You see a round face, built up from patches of orange, pink, yellow and white. The eyes are not level. The expression is hard to place: it seems to sit somewhere between calm and confusion. The official name of the painting is 'Head of a Man Going Senile', but the face feels both childlike and wise at the same time. There is something in it that stays with you. The