Artist biography paul klee fish
Paul klee around the fish!
Masterpiece Story: Fish Magic by Paul Klee
Fish Magic is a mysterious and very fascinating work by Swiss-born German artist Paul Klee, a painter who balanced on the verge of a few modern art movements such as Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
Artist biography paul klee fish
The traces of all of them are present within this oneiric, almost fluorescent painting (but not really, read why!). It is crowded with weird, aquatic creatures which seem to flow out from the deep darkness to appear to the viewer for just a moment before vanishing again into the depths of Klee’s magical world.
When I was a child, my parents decorated a wall in our house with a reproduction of a warmly-colored painting with two small camels and a donkey lost in a composition of abstract rectangles.
It turned out to be a painting by Paul Klee. It was through these little camels that my continuing fascination with the magical world of weird creatures living in Klee’s artworks began.
Paul Klee was born to a family of music