Paul Klee. Twittering Machine (1922)

Paul Klee

Fundamental Paintings to Understand the History of Painting

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Twittering Machine (1922), Paul Klee
Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, 63.8 cm x 48.1 cm
Moma, New York

Klee is a key painter in the history of painting for taking abstraction to its most essential level.

When we observe one of his works, such as this Twittering Machine, the first thing that strikes us is its almost “childish” drawing and the not very understandable composition.

Then it is revealed to us that there is much more behind it: a very personal vision, “the artist creating a universe and developing his own language to communicate it” (one of our favorite definitions of what “art” means).

He learned from Cézanne, the father of modern painting, that truth is not in the external, in appearance, in beauty, but is to be found in depth.

Klee maintained that the original elements of the work, such as line, color, plane, and space, are set in motion by an energy that flows from the artist’s mind. He sought to simplify those graphic elements, In order to achieve primal purity. He got to the primitive, the origin. And he let himself be carried away by intuition; he freed the unconscious. He said, “Nothing surpasses intuition.”

There are those who define Paul Klee as the “primitive” of a new sensibility.

Recommended links:

“Art does not reproduce the visible, rather, it makes visible.”

Paul Klee and the Essence.

The concept “Less is More”

The Bauhaus.

In the mind of Kandinsky.

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