Explore the Description of this artwork, Insula dulcamara.
Like much of Klee's output, the image conveys a coded message to the viewer, asking that he or she should reflect on the artist's thought processes during its creation. The conventional interpretation, led by the fact that the original title of the painting was to be Calypso's Island, is that the symbols arranged on a plain background represent a desert island complete with an idol and passing steamship.