Paul Klee

Bio

Or The Mocker Mocked, 1930, oil on canvas, 17 x 20 5/8 inches (43.2 x 52.4 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.

Paul Klee was a painter born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered to be a German-Swiss. Movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism influenced his highly individual style.

This piece of work by Paul Klee has been created using oil based paints onto canvas.

In the image there is a drawing of a man using continuous line drawings, the whole drawing shows strong shapes created from simple lines that look like the right shapes that make the sizing of the face.

There is a very small amount of tone used in this piece the tonal qualities have been used in the features of the face, the whole face and neck have been used in orange as a mid tone and then in the hair it is a highlighted area that is strong to the viewer and grabs the eye. Then the direction lines from the hair to through the blue eyes past the long nose takes the journey of the continuous line to the red lips to finish off the piece.

The main textures used on this are mostly in the background, as the background is not the focal point of this image it is being used as a textured surface to work from. As you can see that on top on the canvas he has put a thick layer of dark paint so that the piece is striking and is not lost.

This artwork makes me feel like the artist is trying to communicate an emotion of the sitter and that the sitter might be a bit lost or confused and the shape changes of the lines show this and are a symbol of this emotion.

I think that this piece is a very good way of showing and putting across ideas and emotions, as well as that I believe that the shapes in the work help the viewer understand the whole face and neck as one and the way that each feature is individual however comes together as one.