1. Ensuring outstanding teaching in art & design
Art academy
Ensuring outstanding teaching in art & design

2. Watercolours
of Paul Klee
Lesson 2

3. Paul Klee was a Swiss artist who was born in 1879 and died in 1940.
He developed his very own style of painting and admired the art work of children because they freely created art without worrying about a particular style.
Paul Klee experimented with the use of colour, simple shapes and lines to show detail in his paintings

4. What do you think the artist, Paul Klee, has painted?

5. Flora on the Heath by Paul Klee

6. A photograph of some real heathland

7. In the Quarry by Paul Klee
Here are some more watercolours by Paul Klee.
Are there features that are common to all the paintings?
In the Quarry by Paul Klee

9. Paul Klee experimented with the use of colour, simple shapes and lines to show detail in his paintings.
On a trip to Tunisia in 1914 he was impressed by the quality of the light he found there and how vivid and bright the colours were. This greatly influenced his work as he used bright colours in his watercolours of Tunisia.

10. Saint Germain, near Tunis by Paul Klee
Here are some more watercolours by Paul Klee.
Are there features that are common to all the paintings?
Saint Germain, near Tunis by Paul Klee

11. Hammamet with Mosque Southern (Tunisian) Gardens by Paul Klee
Here are some more watercolours by Paul Klee.
Are there features that are common to all the paintings?
Hammamet with Mosque Southern (Tunisian) Gardens by Paul Klee

12. Remembrance of a Garden
Here are some more watercolours by Paul Klee.
Are there features that are common to all the paintings?
What do you think are the key features of his watercolour paintings?
Remembrance of a Garden
by Paul Klee