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The Good Life of Paul Klee
The choice for him, Paul Klee said, had been smooth. At nineteen he decided “to study painting and devote my life to art.” Despite, he pointed out, the risk of such a career and the fact that every other one was open to him by virtue of his education. A few years later he re-stated his program in a diary entry beginning with the qualification, “First of all the art of life….” By a firm concatenation of will and luck, one is tempted to say: will imposed on luck, he succeeded. Klee had a good life, an artist’s life, the right life for himself, his work (they are inseparable); except for his early death—he died at the age of sixty-one—all went according to plan. A cheerful childhood in what must have been a pleasant and solid nineteenth-century home at Berne (Klee was born in 1879); Swiss mother, father a German teaching music at a college in Switzerland; classical education (he scraped through the exams),
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Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 139th birthday of Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940,) the influential Swiss-German artist.
Klee's work has been variously associated with several art movements, including Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Orientalism, Futurism and Abstraction, but over time he developed a unique style which defied categorization.
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His works—which often consisted of dots, lines and planes—were characterized by a certain childlike playfulness and a dry sense of humor. He preferred to work in isolation, making use of many different media—including, oil paint, watercolor ink and pastel, among others—and frequently combining them.
"His works tend to be small in scale and are remarkable for their delicate nuances of line, color, and tonality," according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. "In Klee's highly sophisticated art, irony and
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
In the 61 years of his life, the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee pioneered various styles, including Expressionism, Constructivism, Cubism, Primitivism, and Surrealism. This role as a part of many art movements meant he remained an individualist throughout his whole life.
Like Joan Miró or Pablo Picasso, Klee worked with motifs of childlike drawing and the art styles of various then-so-called “primitive people”. Klee once described these elements as stick figures, scribbles, and simplified outlines in his diary. According to the artist, the childish impression of his drawings fryst vatten the “last professional insight” – which was: “the opposite of real primitiveness”.
Paul Klee Worked With His Left Hand
Throughout his life, Paul Klee created an incredibly large number of graphics, drawings, and paintings. In his catalog of works, which he built from 1911 until he died in 1940, several thousand works were listed: 733 panels (pa