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“Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.”

Quote by Paul Klee

Book:Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection

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Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection

Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection is a comprehensive volume that delves into the renowned collection of the artist's works held in Düsseldorf. The book features detailed analyses of each piece, highlighting Klee's unique style and his contributions to abstract art. It also provides historical context and discusses the collection's role in promoting Klee's legacy. more

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Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German expressionist painter known for his unique style and color usage. His works combined abstract and representational elements and often carried symbolic meanings. Klee's influence on the art world was profound, and he is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. more

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Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

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“In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.”

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“The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.”

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Book:Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings

Source: Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings

“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.”

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“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”

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“Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.”

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Book:Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition

Source: Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition

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Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.”

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