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Klee and Kandinsky

Paul Klee was a Swiss-German artist known for his abstract paintings that utilized colors, lines, and shapes, and he was also a musician. He studied arts in Munich and was associated with the group The Blue Rider, later teaching at the Bauhaus school. Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian artist and Klee's friend, was a pioneer of abstract art, emphasizing the emotional power of color in his works.

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Klee and Kandinsky

Paul Klee was a Swiss-German artist known for his abstract paintings that utilized colors, lines, and shapes, and he was also a musician. He studied arts in Munich and was associated with the group The Blue Rider, later teaching at the Bauhaus school. Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian artist and Klee's friend, was a pioneer of abstract art, emphasizing the emotional power of color in his works.

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PAUL

PAUL KLEE

1879 - 1940
WHO WAS PAUL KLEE?
A Swiss-German artist
He used colors, lines and shapes in his paintings.
He was also a musician (VIOLIN).
When he was 19, he began to study arts in an Art School
in Munich.
His friend was Kandinsky and he was a member of the
group THE BLUE RIDER.
He was an Art teacher at the Bauhaus school.
He made ABSTRACT paintings (not a representation of
reality).
RED BALLOON (1922)
SENECIO (1922)

THE FOOL (1927)


WASSILY
KANDINSKY
1866 - 1944
Wassily Kandinsky
Who was Wassily Kandinsky?
A Russian artist.
He went to Germany to study Art -
where he met Paul Klee.
He was one of the first ABSTRACT
painters - his paintings do not focus on
a person, place, or object but are a
combination of colors, lines and shapes.
ART: not a depiction of reality => evoke
emotions and ideas, color can express
mood.
Importance of color
“Color is a POWER
that directly affects
the SOUL”
- Wassily Kandinsky -
Paintings

Yellow, Red and Blue (1925)


Composition X (1939)

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