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Paul Klee
(Dec.18, 1879, Bern - Jun. 29,1940) Swiss Oil Painting Artist Biography.
Paul Klee art is primitive art, Surrealism, Cubism and children's art all blended into small-scale, delicate oil paintings. Klee grew up in a musical family and was himself a violinist. After much hesitation he chose to study art, not music, and he attended the Munich Academy in 1900. There his teacher was the popular symbolist and society painter Franz von Stuck. Klee later toured Italy (1901-02), responding enthusiastically to Early Christian and Byzantine art.
After his marriage in 1906, Klee settled in Munich, then an important center for avant-garde art. That same year he exhibited his paintings for the first time. His friendship with the painters Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke prompted him to join Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), an Expressionist group that contributed much to the development of abstract art.
A turning point in Klee's career was his visit to Tunisia with Macke in 1914. He was so overwhelmed by the intense light there that he wrote: "Color has taken possession of me, no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment. Color and I are one. I am a painter". He now built up compositions of colored squares that have the radiance of the mosaics he saw on his trip.
Paul Klee taught at the Bauhaus design school after World War I, where his friend Kandinsky was also a faculty member. In Pedagogical Sketchbook (1925), one of several of his important essays on art theory, Klee tried to define and analyze the primary visual elements and the ways in which they could be applied. In 1931 he began teaching at Dusseldorf Academy, but he was dismissed by the Nazis, who termed his work "degenerate." In 1933, Klee went to Switzerland, there he came down with the crippling collagen disease scleroderma, which forced him to develop a simpler style. Klee also turned to theories of both color and music. As he worked on the basis of units of construction taken from nature, Klee tried to create linear improvisations which he likened to the melody of the work. Klee evolved a system of color organization in which all the colors of the spectrum were conceived of as moving around a central axis dominated by the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue.
Paul Klee was one of the greatest colorists in the history of oil painting and a skilled deplorer of line. Klee painted and drew on a very small scale, yet the small size of his oil paintings does not affect their internal greatness.
Klee died relatively young of a slow and wasting disease, his death horribly mimicked by the death of peace that signified World War II. Klee's enormous production more than 9,000 works, is unique as one of the worlds artist in that it represents the successful combination of his sophisticated theories of abstraction with a very personal inventiveness that has the appearance of great innocence.
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Legend of the Nile
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