ARTISTIC CONNECTIONS

"We were sitting in a cafe designed by Paul Klee
I asked myself, is this real or a toupee
Everybody was so young they still smoked cigarettes
I guess the collective unconscious hasn't woken up yet"
last verse of "do not disturb"

Artists are such interesting folk.
Patty Larkin is a musician I have found very interesting, and fell in love with her music and lyric.
She has an album called "Angels Running" from about 1993 or so.
My favorite song is called "Do not Disturb" , and while looking at the lyric some time back, I found a reference to an Artist named Paul Klee.
I don't know anything about art, really, but my curiosity piqued, I decided to look him up.
And in Klee's works I found her inspiration for the title and the theme of her album, Angels Running:.

Good Thing
by Patty Larkin
Well I've heard enough
And I've seen enough
And I know enough to know
I know a Good Thing when I see it
And it's a bad thing to let go

Well I've been around
I've been up and down
Until I bent out of control
With your world all in motion
Got to put a ball and a chain on your soul

All those angels running
Picking up the pieces
Putting back together hearts broke long ago
I know a Good Thing when I see it
And it's a bad thing to let go

There will always
Be lovers
With borders of their own
And you may charge across
In a golden chariot
But you will never be home

I had dreams like distant thunder
I had hope like a prayer unheard
Now this is nothing
Less than perfect
In a less than perfect world

All those angels running
Picking up the pieces
Putting back together hearts broke long ago
I know a Good Thing when I see it
And it's a bad thing to let go


And this is what I found about Klee that brings my story full circle. Its hard to imagine she wasnt inspired by Klee on this album.
....Angelus Novus by Paul Klee

"A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
Walter Benjamin

Artists are such interesting people.
I always liked the song 'Good Thing" but after viewing the painting and reading what Mr. Benjamin says about it...well...it just means that much more.
I don't know that I would buy this painting...where would I put it?