Paul Klee: Fish Facts 1. His name is pronounced Paul Clay. 2.
He was born in 1879 in Switzerland, a country in Europe. 3. He
painted between the years 1900 and 1940.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 4. His father was a music teacher. 5. His
mother was an artist. 6. Paul Klee was a good musician, writer and
teacher.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 7. Paul Klee studied art in Germany. 8.
He learned to draw with line, shape and color. 9. He used all his
talents to make a famous kind of modern art.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts
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10. He realized that a painting did not have to look like a
realistic copy of something to make good artwork. 11. This type of
art is known as abstract art.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts REALISTIC Rose Garden
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts ABSTRACT Rose Garden
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 12. The objects in abstract art look
different from the way they look in real life.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Mountain Landscape Mountain
landscape
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 13. Some of Klees paintings look like
they were done by a child. 14. Many of Paul Klees paintings are
just colors and shapes.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Moonrise over St. Germain
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 15. He worked hard to learn about drawing
with lines. Dancing Girl
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 16. Klee used chalk, paste, watercolors,
and crayons in his paintings. 17. He loved to use beautiful
colors.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Kreuze und SaulenFlowers in Stone Ebene
Landschaft
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 18. He used his imagination to paint
clowns, gardens, beasts and other fanciful things. 19. Klee liked
to use fun titles to name his paintings.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Magic Garden Arrival of Marie Head of
Man
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 20. Paul Klee wanted his paintings to
give you a special feeling. 21. Klee gave some of his paintings a
musical rhythm. 22. He listened to Mozarts music while he
painted.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 23. Klee worked slowly. Sometimes he sat
for hours before painting. 24. Sometimes he worked on six paintings
at once. 25. He taught himself to paint with both hands.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 26. Klee created almost 9,000 paintings
in his lifetime.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Cat and Bird Red Balloon
Efflorescence
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts 27. Paul Klee became an art teacher at
Germanys best art school.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Why Fish Facts?
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Learn to look beyond the surface and get
to the root of things. Paul Klee painted what he saw in his
imagination.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Under the Sea The Golden Fish
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Fish Magic Around the Fish
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts The featured painting. The Seafarer or
Sinbad the Sailor
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts The Seafarer Paul Klee based this
painting on an opera he saw. The character, Sinbad the Sailor is
goofy and clownish.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Notice: the squares in the middle. Klee
called these magic squares. the shading of blue spread over the
squares the light area in the middle of the painting
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Notice: the contrast of the bright red
with the dark the silly shapes and patterns of the fish the person
and the fish look the same in pattern and color
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts The Project Paul Klee said: A line is a
dot that went for a walk.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Use a black marker and take your line for
a walk across the grid paper. v vvv vv
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Shade in some of your squares to help
color in your line drawing.
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Paul Klee: Fish Facts Fill in the rest of your picture with
color that helps define and show what your drawing is. Now you have
a Klee-esque MASTERPIECE!