Klee has influenced my husband's artwork since he first saw his work - probably in the early 1980s! Thank you for sharing these. It's a great reminder of how truly great artwork has influence over time and disciplines.
Hey L! Yes I seen it feel it . Klee’s humor and fun. It’s striking in our bones the influencers and this profound understanding of impactful awareness brought by others . Appreciate that you rewound a bit payed a tribute a honor as you shared the college days for you. I see some of his influence in your art . And hells yeah for playfulness and fun! Even if art or personalities are perceived as out of line or not serious - it most certainly for me is a portrayal of an even keel as we all float around on this ever changing dynamic sea of existence. ✨
Totally! We need balance. And thank you for saying you see his influnece in what I do! I totally recall the excitement when I first encountered his work.
Nov 26, 2023·edited Nov 26, 2023Liked by Liza Donnelly
Yes! Thank you for honoring him and describing how you first saw his artwork. In a junior high school art class, I first saw a drawing that changed my understanding of art - it was Klee's THE TWITTERING MACHINE, proving that art can be humorous!!!! (As opposed to being "serious.") His published diaries, and other volumes written by contemporaries and others are in my collection. At the end of his life, he was GREATLY influenced by the inhumanity of the Third Reich, and by his (horrible) disease, scleroderma. The Paul Klee Museum is located in Bern, Switzerland. (And HIS art is serious in all its variations.)
I just looked up the museum in Bern, can't wait to visit! Are his journals good to read? Such a sad death, so painful and I read they didn't diagnose it until after he died, years later.
One of my favorite artist too - so much so a highschool boyfriend gave me a book featuring his works for my birthday long ago. The gallery at the Athens Hilton had an exhibit of his work (1966?67?) and I went over several times just to walk through it I was so fascinated by it.
I have loved Paul Klee's work ever since I was young (in the 1950s) and, quite luckily, had ready access to MOMA. The SKIRA Paul Klee book has traveled with me throughout my life. I always enjoy looking at his work, his wit, and joyfulness -- and always see new things.
Ah, Liza. You touch it with a needle. All of us who create, however humbly, have people like Paul Klee in out past and present. Mine are men and women of words: Shakespeare, Mary Shelly, Dostoevsky, P.G. Wodehouse, Mr. Orwell, Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, so many others. I suppose it’s much the same with you: a long and star-studded list. We have that, if not much else, in common.
As an art student a long time ago (1969-73) I enjoyed Klee but felt he was irrelevant to what I was learning, which was taught by painters who studied under Han Hoffman. But now an old man, I see him much differently. Not necessarily a central figure but one whose work presaged the period we are now in where no set of big ideas prevail.
Klee has influenced my husband's artwork since he first saw his work - probably in the early 1980s! Thank you for sharing these. It's a great reminder of how truly great artwork has influence over time and disciplines.
You're welcome!
Hey L! Yes I seen it feel it . Klee’s humor and fun. It’s striking in our bones the influencers and this profound understanding of impactful awareness brought by others . Appreciate that you rewound a bit payed a tribute a honor as you shared the college days for you. I see some of his influence in your art . And hells yeah for playfulness and fun! Even if art or personalities are perceived as out of line or not serious - it most certainly for me is a portrayal of an even keel as we all float around on this ever changing dynamic sea of existence. ✨
Totally! We need balance. And thank you for saying you see his influnece in what I do! I totally recall the excitement when I first encountered his work.
Yes! Thank you for honoring him and describing how you first saw his artwork. In a junior high school art class, I first saw a drawing that changed my understanding of art - it was Klee's THE TWITTERING MACHINE, proving that art can be humorous!!!! (As opposed to being "serious.") His published diaries, and other volumes written by contemporaries and others are in my collection. At the end of his life, he was GREATLY influenced by the inhumanity of the Third Reich, and by his (horrible) disease, scleroderma. The Paul Klee Museum is located in Bern, Switzerland. (And HIS art is serious in all its variations.)
I just looked up the museum in Bern, can't wait to visit! Are his journals good to read? Such a sad death, so painful and I read they didn't diagnose it until after he died, years later.
One of my favorite artist too - so much so a highschool boyfriend gave me a book featuring his works for my birthday long ago. The gallery at the Athens Hilton had an exhibit of his work (1966?67?) and I went over several times just to walk through it I was so fascinated by it.
I want to go to the museum dedicated to him in Bern!
Life goals!
I have loved Paul Klee's work ever since I was young (in the 1950s) and, quite luckily, had ready access to MOMA. The SKIRA Paul Klee book has traveled with me throughout my life. I always enjoy looking at his work, his wit, and joyfulness -- and always see new things.
Ah, Liza. You touch it with a needle. All of us who create, however humbly, have people like Paul Klee in out past and present. Mine are men and women of words: Shakespeare, Mary Shelly, Dostoevsky, P.G. Wodehouse, Mr. Orwell, Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, so many others. I suppose it’s much the same with you: a long and star-studded list. We have that, if not much else, in common.
As an art student a long time ago (1969-73) I enjoyed Klee but felt he was irrelevant to what I was learning, which was taught by painters who studied under Han Hoffman. But now an old man, I see him much differently. Not necessarily a central figure but one whose work presaged the period we are now in where no set of big ideas prevail.