Paul Klee: 20th century swiss painting

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Andy Renmei

Paul Klee was a very skillful colorist and knew how to use line properly. He had a immense ability with formal creation. Music inspired him, and made him one of the most poetic artistis of the 20th century. He was a teacher at the Bauhaus school.

Landscape and the yellow church tower

“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.”

Domes

Ancient Sound

“Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible.”

Dream City

Highway and Byways

Underwater Garden

Golden Fish

The background is extremely thorouly planned in order to receive such a powerful “foreground”: the golden fish, whose colours are correct enough to make him shine alone in the painting.