Paul Klee — Static Dynamic Gradation | Bauhaus Colour Theory Print

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Paul Klee — Static Dynamic Gradation | Bauhaus Colour Theory PrintPaul Klee (18791940) was a Swiss German artist who produced one of the 20th century's most singular bodies of work spanning Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and a visual language entirely his own. A celebrated teacher at the Bauhaus alongside Kandinsky and Moholy Nagy, Klee believed that drawing was simply "a line that went for a walk." Over his lifetime he created more than 9,000 works each a small universe of colour theory, symbolic depth, and

are treasured in Japanese temple collections and command the highest respect in the history of Sino-Japanese artistic exchange

Contributing to the legendary Gazette du Bon Ton and producing book illustrations

a serious and original visual artist

Maurits van der Valk (1857–1935) was a Dutch etcher and painter associated with the Hague School

guards in sumptuous palace corridors — are among the most sumptuously detailed works of the entire Orientalist movement

in five versions) became one of the defining images of 19th-century Symbolism — a vision of funerary mystery so compelling that it was owned by Sigmund Freud

compositional restraint

Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) is widely considered his masterpiece — a silent film made in the sound era

still lifes — combine the rigour of European Cubism with a Southern warmth and chromatic exuberance that gives them a distinctly Argentine voice

and spiritual refinement

and the classical tradition to create images of transcendent spiritual drama

He became abbot of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto at the age of 81

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