Paul KleeBorn in1878 in SwitzerlandDied in 1940 in Switzerland

Nationality: Swiss/German

Art form: Surrealism, cubism, abstract art.

Color: important element in his work after in 1914 visiting Africa.

What is the same? What is different?

Geometric Shape

Organic ShapesShapes and/or forms similar to those found in

nature, such as plants, animals and rocks.

• The goldfish

Cubism

A 20th century style of art

is a picture that break in to many shapes(each shapes will have different colors form the other

colors around it.)

Has multiple viewpoints, a style associated with the works of artists Marcel Duchamp

and Pablo Picasso.

Cubism

Free Form Shapes

A Shape or form having an asymmetrical or irregular contour, often with a curvilinear, flowing outline, sometimes referred as “organic” or “biomorphic”.

SurrealismThe use of fantastic imagery to combine the

dreamlike with the realistic.

Line• An element of visual art

• The flat path of a dot through space used by artist to control the viewer’s eye movement;

• A long narrow mark of stroke made on or in a surface;

• a thin mark made by a pencil, pen or brush.

Heroic Roses 1938

Abstract

A Style of art that refers to various types of 20th century art

Images that have been altered from their realistic/natural appearance.

CompositionCreate, design or form something by

arranging parts to create a unified whole.

• Rising “Rising Sun”

Head of a man“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.” Paul Klee

Other compositions by Klee

Slight variation to above lesson:• Have students choose a single crayon color.• Sketch geometric shapes lightly with pencil. Have them

trace heavily with a crayon.• Use water color paints to fill in sections creating a cubism

effect.

Alternative Lesson:

Day One: Making "Broken Window Drawings"

Step 1: The class reviewed the art of Paul Klee and discussed his use of lines. In early works, like the ones at left, Klee outlined blocks before adding color.

Step 2: Sketching lightly in pencil, students drew their choice of animal or human figures. They were asked to make simple, blocky drawings so later they'd be easy to paint over. No line should be shorter than one half-inch, and no two lines should come closer together than a half-inch unless intersecting.

Step 3: Students made a dot anywhere near the center of the page. With straight-edges, they drew radiating glass-crack lines outward from these dots to the edges of the paper, separated "about the width of pie slices."

Step 4: With squeeze bottles of white glue, students were challenged to put narrow beads down the middle of every pencil line. Glue was allowed to dry overnight.

Step 5: Using watercolor paints fill in sections. Two neighboring sections must not have same color. Glue helps to keep sections delineated.