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Category: Multimedia
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Portrait of Josette Gris
Juan Gris, oil on panel, 1916 This portrait work compresses the various elements into a single spatial plane, using colour and tone to denote spatial contrast; this creates an unusual perspective effect. I was able to view it in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, earlier in 2007. Read more →
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Insula Dulcamara
Paul Klee, oil on newsprint, mounted on burlap, 1938 Now exhibited at the Klee Foundation, Bern, Switzerland. Read more →
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Remembrance of a Garden
Paul Klee, watercolor on linen paper mounted on cardboard, 1914 Read more →
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Ad Parnassum
Paul Klee, oil on canvas, 1932 This is an interesting work. It represents the culmination of a series of experiments by Klee, who sought to redefine the traditional system of colour representation in a radial pattern around an axis consisting of red, yellow and blue (the three primary colours). Klee drew inspiration from nature and… Read more →