Thursday, February 2, 2012
Paul Klee
Paul Klee was born in Switzerland in 1879. He was very artistic from a young age. He always drew, but he also played the violin. His family was very "musical". With his dad being a music teacher, and his mom a professional singer, he was always pressured to pursue music. But instead of music, When he grew older, he decided to study art in Munich Germany. When in school, he learned to use many colors in his drawings. He was one of the first artists to draw abstract art. He also was one of the first artists to realize that when you paint, it doesn't have to look like a photograph. His drawing was different than many others in his time.
Fire At Evening was drawn in 1929. "Klee's trip to Egypt in the winter of 1928–29 inspired a number of striated compositions, a response in part to the stratified cliffs of the Nile Valley and the long strips of tilled fields he saw there. " -(http://www.moma.org/) There are many straight lines in the paintings. There are no un-even edges, or curves. They are all crossing eachother, connecting each line and color. The painting has many dark colors. The Bright orange square mixed in with the dark shades of brown, dark purple, and blue, stands out. When I look at the painting my eye is immediately drawn to that one burst of a glowing color. The bright orange really illuminates the whole painting.
The first thing I saw when looking at the picture was the orange square. I feel like I know what Paul Klee was looking at and invisioning when he drew this painting. In the feild of darkness there was on thing that stood out. That night when he was looking at the cliffs and mountains, one burst of color cought his eye. I believe that the whole drawing wasn't a blur of a fire but, that the one box of color was the flames. Everytime I look at the painting, I try to think about what he could have been feeling when drawing this. It might not have been my initial thought, that the scene really was a fire. The orange might not be fire, but a light. It could symbolize something dark in his life, or the darkness around him, and that one Bright light helps him see where he's going. The light could be a symbol of hope or guidance.
No matter what Paul Klee was thinking when painting this piece of art, I think that everyone can inturpret it differently. The painting doesn't have many boundries, you can't see where it starts or ends. The painting can be anything.
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