We have been talking about Paul Klee and his painting "Red Balloon". Klee was born December 18, 1879 – died June 29, 1940. He was a painter born in Switzerland and is
considered to be a Swiss
German. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that
included expressionism, cubism,
and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and
eventually got deep into color
theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and
Design Theory published in English as
the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to
be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Paintings
was for the Renisance. He and his colleague, the Russian painter Kandinsky,
both taught at the German
Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry
humour and his sometimes childlike
perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and also his musicality.
Although
much of Klee’s work is figurative, compositional design nearly always preceded
narrative association. The
artist often transformed his experiments in tonal value and line into visual anecdotes.
Red Balloon, for example,
is at once a cluster of delicately colored, floating geometric shapes and a
charming cityscape. – Guggenheim.com
