Seeing Below the Surface Paul Klee Fish Facts 1 His name is pronounced Paul Clay 2 He was born in 1879 in Switzerland a country in Europe 3 He painted between the years 1900 and 1940 ID: 361855
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Paul Klee
Seeing Below the SurfaceSlide2
Paul Klee: Fish Facts
1. His name is pronounced Paul “Clay.”
2. He was born in 1879 in Switzerland, a country in Europe.
3. He painted between the years 1900 and 1940.Slide3
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4. His father was a music teacher.
5. His mother was an artist.
6. Paul Klee was a good musician, writer and teacher.Slide4
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7. Paul Klee studied art in Germany.
8. He learned to draw with line, shape and color.
9. He used all his talents to make a famous kind of modern art.Slide5
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10. He realized that a painting did not have to look like a realistic copy of something to make good artwork.
11. This type of art is known as
abstract art
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REALISTIC
Rose GardenSlide8
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ABSTRACT
Rose GardenSlide9
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The objects in abstract art look different from the way they look in real life.Slide10
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Mountain Landscape
Mountain landscapeSlide11
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13. Some of Klee’s paintings look like they were done by a child.
14. Many of Paul Klee’s paintings are just colors and shapes.Slide12
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Moonrise over St.
GermainSlide13
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15. He worked hard to learn about drawing with lines.
Dancing GirlSlide14
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16. Klee used chalk, paste, watercolors, and crayons in his paintings.
17. He loved to use beautiful colors.Slide15
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Kreuze
und
Saulen
Flowers in Stone
Ebene
LandschaftSlide16
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18. He used his imagination to paint clowns, gardens, beasts and other fanciful things.
19. Klee liked to use fun titles to name his paintings.Slide17
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Magic Garden
Arrival of Marie
Head of ManSlide18
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20. Paul Klee wanted his paintings to give you a special feeling.
21. Klee gave some of his paintings a musical rhythm.
22. He listened to Mozart’s music while he painted.Slide19
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23. Klee worked slowly. Sometimes he sat for hours before painting.
24. Sometimes he worked on six paintings at once.
25. He taught himself to paint with both hands.Slide20
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26. Klee created almost 9,000 paintings in his lifetime.Slide21
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Cat and Bird
Red Balloon
EfflorescenceSlide22
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27. Paul Klee became an art teacher at Germany’s best art school.Slide23
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Why Fish Facts? Slide24
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“Learn to look
beyond the surface
and get to the root of things.”
Paul Klee painted what he saw in his imagination.Slide25
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Under
the
Sea
The Golden FishSlide26
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Fish Magic
Around the FishSlide27
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The featured painting.
The Seafarer or Sinbad the SailorSlide28
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The Seafarer
Paul Klee based this painting on an opera he saw.
The character, Sinbad the Sailor is goofy and clownish.Slide29
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Notice:
the squares in the middle. Klee called these “magic squares.”
the shading of blue spread over the squares
the light area in the middle of the paintingSlide30
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Notice:
the contrast of the bright red with the dark
the silly shapes and patterns of the fish
the person and the fish look the same in pattern and colorSlide31
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The Project
Paul Klee said:
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”Slide32
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Use a black marker and take your line for a walk across the grid paper.
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Shade in some of your squares to help color in your line drawing.Slide34
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Fill in the rest of your picture with color that helps define and show what your drawing is.
Now you have a Klee-
esque
MASTERPIECE!Slide35
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Bye-bye!Slide36
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