Paul KleePaul Klee

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Paul Klee loved the Paul Klee loved the innocence of children’sinnocence of children’s art. art.

Often, he would use Often, he would use children’s art to inspire his children’s art to inspire his

own works.own works.

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Paul Klee was an Paul Klee was an abstractabstract artist. Objects artist. Objects and figures in abstract art look different and figures in abstract art look different

from the way they look in real life.from the way they look in real life.

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Sometimes you Sometimes you can see things in can see things in his paintings like his paintings like numbersnumbers, , lettersletters, ,

primitive symbolsprimitive symbols, , & & familiar objectsfamiliar objects..

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Paul Klee loved Paul Klee loved bright colorsbright colors. . Most of his paintings are filled with Most of his paintings are filled with

beautiful and beautiful and exciting colorsexciting colors..

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Klee loved Klee loved musicmusic. He was an . He was an expert violinist.expert violinist.

He tried to paint the He tried to paint the soundssounds and and rhythmic patternsrhythmic patterns of of

musical instruments using musical instruments using shapes and colorsshapes and colors. .

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Paul Klee used Paul Klee used his imagination to his imagination to create create imaginaryimaginary

worldsworlds..

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Select a Project:

1. Take a line for a walk, or2. Broken-window drawings.

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Project 1: Take a Line for a Walk

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1. Put the tip of a pencil somewhere on the paper, and begin drawing a line. Let the line travel up, down, to the sides, looping over itself, covering the full expanse of the paper. Try very hard not to lift the pencil off the paper, until your instructor says to lift it off.

Klee said that drawing is like "taking a line for a walk.“

2. Color in each segment using oil pastel crayons. Try to make each segment a different color than its neighbors, but don’t be upset if you can’t; the picture will be fine!

Project 2: Broken-window drawings.

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1. Draw any animal or human figures in simple, blocky drawings. No line should be shorter than one half-inch, and no lines should come closer together than a half-inch unless intersecting.

2. Make a dot anywhere near the center of the page.

3. With a straight edge, draw radiating glass-crack lines outward from these dots to the edges of the paper, separated about the width of pizza slices.

Project 2: Broken-window drawings.

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4. Run a glue stick over each glass-crack line.

5. Using oil pastel crayons, color in the drawings, making sure that each segment is a different color than its neighbors. The waxed crack lines should stop the crayon tips from slipping into its neighboring segment.