Paul Klee Art

Paul Klee Art

Paul Klee (1879-1940), a Swiss German painter and watercolorist, one of the most original masters of modern art. Klee created images known for their fantastic dream-like qualities, wit, and imagination. He was influenced by many different art styles, including Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. He was also a student of orientalism. Klee was also a master draftsman, and many of his works are elaborated line drawings with subject matter that grew out of fantasy or dream imagery - he described his technique in these drawings as "taking a line for a walk".

Throughout his career, Paul Klee used color in a variety of unique and diverse means, in a relationship that has progressed and evolved in a variety of ways. Eventually, Klee would learn to manipulate color with great skill and passion coming to teach lessons on color mixing and color theory to students at the Bauhaus. This progression in itself is of great interest because his views on color would ultimately allow him to write about it from a unique viewpoint among his contemporaries.

Klee was highly spiritual. Klee tended to see the world as a model, a kind of illusion run up by the cosmic clockmaker - God - to demonstrate spiritual truth. This helps account for the toy-like character of his fantasies; if the world had no final reality, it could be represented in the freest, most schematic way, and this Klee set out to do.

Klee's assumptions were unabashedly transcendentalist. "Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth," he wrote in 1920, "things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities..."

Klee's career was a search for the symbols and metaphors that would make this belief visible. More than any other painter outside the Surrealist movement (dreams, primitive art, myth, and cultural incongruity), he refused to draw hard distinctions between art and writing. Indeed, many of his paintings are a form of writing: they pullulate with signs, arrows, floating letters, misplaced directions, and commas; their code for any object, from the veins of a leaf to the grid pattern, makes no attempt at sensuous description, but instead declares itself to be a purely mental image, a hieroglyph existing in emblematic space.

Now Klee has become a classic whose pictures are reproduced in their thousands. They have established themselves so firmly in the collective memory that seeing the original can be an experience in its own right, a discovery. Klee developed a veritable cosmos of pictorial forms, presenting a wealth of creative beauty that has remained unique. Even when he compresses his pictorial resources to the utmost, he never slips into anything uncontrolled or random. Paul Klee's art demands undivided attention - and it is also capable of opening one's eyes to something that lies beyond the image itself.

Today, a painting by Paul Klee can sell for as much as $7 million.

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Contents

  1. Before the Gates of Kairouan, 1914
  2. Garden in the European Colony of St. Germain in Tunis, 1914
  3. In the Kairouan Style, 1914
  4. Red and Yellow Houses in Tunis, 1914
  5. Untitled, 1914
  6. View of Kairouan, 1914
  7. In Franz Marc's Garden, 1915
  8. Moonrise, 1915
  9. Quarry, 1915
  10. Cacodemonic, 1916
  11. Ab Ovo, 1917
  12. Interplay of Forces in a Lech River Landscape, 1917
  13. Warning of the Ships, 1917
  14. With the Rainbow, 1917
  15. Castle with the Setting Sun, 1918
  16. E, 1918
  17. Flower Myth, 1918
  18. Mountain Landscape, 1918
  19. Once Emerged from the Grey of Night, 1918
  20. Sunken Landscape, 1918
  21. With the Eagle, 1918
  22. Cosmic Architecture, 1919
  23. Cosmic Composition, 1919
  24. Feather Plant, 1919
  25. Moribundus, 1919
  26. Picture with the Cock and Grenadier, 1919
  27. Sinking Sun, 1919
  28. Small Landscape, 1919
  29. Villa R, 1919
  30. Young Proletarian, 1919
  31. Camel (In Rhythmic Landscape with Trees), 1920
  32. Head with German-style Beard, 1920
  33. Rose Garden, 1920
  34. Small Rhythmic Landscape, 1920
  35. Three Flowers, 1920
  36. Woman Awakening, 1920
  37. Crystal Gradation, 1921
  38. Head of a Famous Robber, 1921
  39. The Festival of the Asters, 1921
  40. Transparent-Perspectively, 1921
  41. Woodland Berry, 1921
  42. Affected Place, 1922
  43. Fire Wind, 1922
  44. God of the Northern Forest, 1922
  45. Queen of Hearts, 1922
  46. Rose Wind, 1922
  47. The Twittering Machine, 1922
  48. Actor, 1923
  49. Connected to the Stars, 1923
  50. Domestic Requiem, 1923
  51. Eros, 1923
  52. Fight Scene from 'The Seafarers', 1923
  53. Fire Wind, 1923
  54. Harmony in Blue-Orange, 1923
  55. Harmony of Rectangles with Red, Yellow, Blue, White and Black, 1923
  56. Nodthern Village 2, 1923
  57. Northern Village, 1923
  58. Puppet Theatre, 1923
  59. Scenic-Physiognomic, 1923
  60. Street in the Camp, 1923
  61. The Mountain of Sacred Cat, 1923
  62. Like a Window Pane, 1924
  63. Water Pyramids, 1924
  64. Contemplation at Breakfast, 1925
  65. Crucifiers and Spiral Flowers, 1925
  66. Fish Image, 1925
  67. The Goldfish, 1925
  68. The Singer of the Comic Opera, 1925
  69. A Garden for Orpheus, 1926
  70. Fish Physiognomic, 1926
  71. Rock-Cut Temple with Fir Trees, 1926
  72. Black Prince, 1927
  73. Cobweb, 1927
  74. Colorful Lightning, 1927
  75. Pavilion Decked with Flags, 1927
  76. Spirit Drinking and Gambling, 1927
  77. Urban Perspective, 1928
  78. Before the Snow, 1929
  79. Crystalline Landscape, 1929
  80. Highway and By-Ways, 1929
  81. Illuminated Leaf, 1929
  82. Light-Broadening I, 1929
  83. Monument on the Border of Fertile Country, 1929
  84. Physiognimic Genesis, 1929
  85. Still Life, 1929
  86. The Place of the Twins, 1929
  87. Vegetal Strange, 1929
  88. Animal Catching a Scent, 1930
  89. Childhood of the Choosen One, 1930
  90. Conqueror, 1930
  91. Individualized Altimetry of Layers, 1930
  92. Jumper, 1930
  93. Rhythmical, Stricter and Freer, 1930
  94. Romantic Park, 1930
  95. Six Kinds, 1930
  96. Tale of the North, 1930
  97. Untitled, 1930
  98. Design for a Cloak, 1931
  99. Light and Something More, 1931
  100. Portal of a Mosque, 1931
  101. Ad Parnassum, 1932
  102. Evening in the Valley, 1932
  103. Meeting Place, 1932
  104. Still Life in Width, 1932
  105. The Step, 1932
  106. Untitled, 1932
  107. Bust of a Child, 1933
  108. Sacrifice at Full Moon, 1933
  109. Struck from the List, 1933
  110. Angel in the Making, 1934
  111. Mountain Village (Autumnal), 1934
  112. The Invention, 1934
  113. Guarded Plant, 1937
  114. Legend of the Nile, 1937
  115. Musician, 1937
  116. Insula Dulcamara, 1938
  117. The Grey Man and the Coast, 1938
  118. Children's Game, 1939
  119. Colourful Group, 1939
  120. High Spirits, 1939
  121. Outbreak of Fear III, 1939
  122. Boating Pleasure on the Canal, 1940
  123. Double, 1940
  124. Flora on the Rocks, 1940
  125. Untitled, 1940

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