Ma sélection
Fishes in the deep, 1921
Magnifique mouvement que je préfère au Fish magic,
1925
Palace red violet yellow green diametrical gradation
Fantastique sensation de serénité
Architecture, 1923
Pour sa noirceur optimiste
Traps, 1927
Pour son rouge profond
Portrait of an equilibrist, 1927
Pour la force qu'il dégage malgré son minimalisme
In the current six thresholds, 1929
Pour la sensation combinée d'ordre et de fantaisie
Summer house, 1929
Parce qu'en hiver, on a besoin de croire au retour de
la belle saison !
Dancer, 1932
Pour la légéreté qu'il dégage et son petit coté
picassien ... Ou mirosque ? ;-)
P fourteen, 1931
Parce que l'Egypte me saute au yeux ... Et ça me
plait ! Les pyramides, la végétation aride, les multiples teintes beige et
grises, les minuscules personnages, le vent ...
Walpurgis Night, 1935
Attirant et effrayant en même temps, bleu tentateur
Forest witches, 1938
Mystérieuses couleurs ... et aussi parce que c'est
l'un des seuls grand tableaux de l'expo !
Park near Lu, 1938
J'aimerais m'y évader !
A Mastery Of Colour: Paul Klee At Tate Modern
Paul Klee is an artist most associated with the modernist movement and for mastery of colour in his paintings. This mammoth Tate exhibition across 17 rooms looks across his career with over 130 works on display. It highlights both how talented a painter and draughtsman he was and the diversity of his work.
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| Paul Klee, Fire at Full Moon, 1933. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany |
There is plenty of art in Klee’s signature bold and colourful semi-abstract style. Recognisable objects like flowers, a hotel and the sun appear interspersed among blocks of bright colours. There are also his trademark darker works where the black backgrounds ensure that the bright foreground objects become more vivid.
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| Paul Klee, Redgreen and Violet-yellow Rhythms, 1920 |
Eyes stare out of some of his works forcing the viewer to be drawn in, whether they are disembodied and accusatory or upon fishes that look on helplessly and forlornly.
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| Paul Klee, Comedy, 1921 |
A Klee quote in the exhibition states “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible”. This is a great summary of Klee’s style, as he was able to create scenes that are rooted in the real world yet bear the hallmarks of a fervent imagination.
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| Paul Klee, Steps, 1929 |
What’s most impressive about Klee’s work is his versatility and how unfair it is to label him simply as a modernist. This exhibition shows us that he was equally adept at drawing caricatures, minimalism, primitivism and almost any technique he turned his hand to. A brightly coloured expressionist painting of a witch can be seen in one room while a pastel coloured pointillist portrait of a dancer may be seen in the next.
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| Paul Klee, Static-Dynamic Intensification, 1923 |
This large exhibition does a great job of showing us what a tour de force Klee was and highlights his immense talent and versatility which is only matched by Picasso.