Tag Archives: Klee

(Impossible) Geometrical Gnosis (Paul Klee)

Posted on March 22, 2017 by zjb

From 1932, Paul Klee’s Two Ways (Zwei Gänge) was bought by the museum and is now on view at Visionaries: Making a Modern Guggenheim. Klee is most famous for his quirky figurative paintings, less so for more abstract works such … Continue reading →

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Abstract World (Paul Klee) (Horizon, Zenith, and Atmosphere)

Posted on March 21, 2017 by zjb

This image by Paul Klee, Horizon, Zenith, and Atmosphere (1925) is now on view at Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim. Klee’s extraterrestrial figures tend to be drawn from more down to earth perspectives that shadow our own. This picture takes … Continue reading →

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Paul Klee and “the Spiritual in Art” (Dance You Monster to My Soft Song!)

Posted on March 19, 2017 by zjb

Dance You Monster to My Soft Song! enjoys an exclamation point at the end of the title, at once stern and genial. Less famous than his cousin Angelus Novus, this funny little monster from 1922 by Paul Klee has none of the bathos … Continue reading →

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