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1 Paul Klee (1879–1940) Senecio-1922

2 Most known for: Klee is known for his simple stick figures, suspended fish, moon faces, eyes, arrows, and quilts of color, with fantastic and childlike yet deeply meditative style. He was also a teacher at the famous art school, Bauhaus.

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4 Red Balloon 1922

5 Fish Magic 1925

6 In 1914, Klee visited Tunisia
In 1914, Klee visited Tunisia. The experience was the turning point in his life and career. The light of North Africa awakened his sense of color. His work was also influenced by the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

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8 Senecio-1922 Completed in 1922, Senecio is a manifestation of Paul's sense of humor and African culture. The simple colors and shapes, Paul makes use of various shades of orange, red, and yellow to reveal portrait of an old man. Artistic use of shapes gives the false impression that one eye browse is raised. His left eye brow is represented by a triangle while the other one is made of a simple curved line. The portrait is also called Head of a Man Going Senile and intentionally mimics children's artwork by using ambiguous shapes and forms with minimal facial details. 

9 This adaptation of the human face is divided by color into rectangles.
Flat geometric squares are held within a circle representing a masked face and displaying the multi-colored costume of a harlequin. A portrait of the artist performer Senecio, it can be seen as a symbol of the shifting relationship between art, illusion and the world of drama. This painting demonstrates Klee's principles of art, in which the graphic elements of line, color planes and space are set in motion by an energy from the artist's mind. In his imaginative doodlings, he liked, in his own words, to "take a line for a walk" .

10 A Young Lady's Adventure, 1922

11 Adam and Little Eve, 1921 In this watercolor, Klee somewhat expanded the story of the creation of man. His Eve, after growing from Adam's rib, stays right there. She also remains a child. Evchen ("Little Eve") looks like a schoolgirl with flaxen hair tied in a braid. Adam is a broad-faced, grown man who sports earrings and a mustache. By placing the figures against a shallow ground with a reddish curtain, Klee seems to set the oddly matched pair on a puppet-theater stage.

12 Ad Parnassum (1932)

13 (Gradus) Ad Parnassum  In Greek mythology, one of the peaks was sacred to Apollo and the nine Muses, the inspiring deities of the arts, and the other to Bacchus.[ The phrase has often been used to refer to various books of instruction, or guides, in which gradual progress in literature, language instruction, music, or the arts in general, is sought.


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