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Paul Klee

They're Biting, 1920

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About the artwork

This work is an example of Klee’s Ölfarbzeichnungen (oil colour drawings). This technique was described by art biographer Jurgen Glaesemer as follows: 'He painted thin Japan paper with black oil paint, and when the paint was sufficiently dry, he placed a sheet like a tracing paper under the drawing and traced the contours of the drawing through with a metal needle. As a result the paper below showed not only the outline of the drawing in a new way, but also the deliberately distributed patches and structures of the oil paint made by the rubbing or the placing of the hand during the tracing process'.

Abstract Art

Artist Paul Klee
Artwork They're Biting
Exhibition Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33
Image size 311 x 235 mm
Date of work 1920
Credit Watercolour and oil paint on paper 31.1 x 23.5 cm

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Paul Klee (1879 - 1040) was a Swiss-born German artist. 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 deeply explored colour theory, writing about it extensively. His lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting was for the Renaissance.
He taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

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