1. Paul Klee by Luis Lescano

2. Biography Born in Switzerland on Dec. 18, 1879. 1900: Attended Munich Academy. 1906: Klee married pianist Lily Stumpf and settles in Munich. 1906: He joins “Der blaue Reiter” (The Blue Rider) an expressionist group that contributed much to the development of abstract art. Died in Switzerland June. 29, 1940 from Scleroderma.

3. Early influences Friendship with artists Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke. Also members of the Der Blaue Reiter. Klee toured Italy after his studies at Munich Academy. He was fascinated by early Christian and Byzantine art.

4. Painting style and technique “Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible,”. Klee was fascinated with German idealist metaphysics and saw the world as a model.

5. The The Bud 1920 You go the flower at three different stages representing the cycle of life. You also get light representing life and the darkness represents the lack of life.

6. Strange Garden 1923 He overwhelms you with primitive style type drawings by bunching them up and making them overlap and making the painting and all the creatures in it came together as one

7. And here are some more paintings by Paul Klee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_yZRK6G eew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_yZRK6G eew