Saturday, March 23, 2024

paul klee (and the mark of the child)

paul klee has been called many things: a father of abstract art, a bauhaus master, the progenitor of surrealism —a very hard man to pin down. 

klee's weird paintings are tied to numerous groundbreaking 20th-century movements, from german expressionism to dada. 

paul klee, portrait of a yellow man, 1921 

                                                        paul klee, angelus novo, 1920


what's klee's mark? 

*anaglyptographic skills (his mark appears to be carved in low relief). 

*mystical symbols (glowing stars and suns, topsy-turvy checkerboards, disembodied heads).

* children doodlings,

* incorporating the art of people with psychological disorder ("they have the power to see").


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