Paul Klee

Klee had a very individual style that was significantly influenced by movements such as Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee experimented with and deeply explored colour theory similar to Kandinsky. His work is built on a childlike perspective of life. Klee was an artist that was a challenger of the traditional boundries that had been put in place by his predessors and some of the artists working within his time period. He had a longing desire to breakaway from what had been catergorised as art at the time. He was also similar to Kandinsky in the way that he “sensed that more is hidden than shown” and through this it was his job as an artist to “seek the secrets of reality where they hide”. These secrets were usually paired with nature as many of his abstract forms were representative of images that were seen in nature. Klee playfully toys with techniques that vary the depth of his line, tone and colour. My favourite piece by Klee is 'Hammamet with Its Mosque'.

Date: 1914

Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper mounted on cardboard

Dimensions: 9 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (23.8 × 22.2 cm)