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.
Paul Klee: Fish Facts
4. His father was a music
teacher.
5. His mother was an artist.
6. Paul Klee was a good
musician, writer and teacher.
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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.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts
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 Garden
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ABSTRACT
Rose Garden
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The objects in
abstract art look
different from the
way they look in real
life.
12.
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Mountain Landscape
Mountain landscape
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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.
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Moonrise over St. Germain
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15. He worked hard to learn
about drawing with lines.
Dancing Girl
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16. Klee used chalk, paste,
watercolors, and crayons in his
paintings.
17. He loved to use beautiful
colors.
Paul Klee: Fish Facts
Kreuze und Saulen
Flowers in Stone
Ebene Landschaft
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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.
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Magic Garden
Arrival of Marie
Head of Man
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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.
Paul Klee: Fish Facts
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.
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26. Klee created almost
9,000 paintings in his
lifetime.
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Red Balloon
Cat and Bird
Efflorescence
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27. Paul Klee became
an art teacher at
Germany’s best art
school.
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Why Fish Facts?
Paul Klee: Fish Facts
“Learn to look
beyond the surface
and get to the root of things.”
Paul Klee painted what he
saw in his imagination.
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Under the Sea
The Golden Fish
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Fish Magic
Around the Fish
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The featured painting.
The Seafarer or Sinbad the Sailor
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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.
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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
painting
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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 color
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The Project
Paul Klee said:
“A line is a dot that
went for a walk.”
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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.
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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!
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Bye-bye!
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