Klee
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
klee
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.swissinfo.ch/image/38334922/2x3/682/1024/e565247c391209b79bd7b14338381415/QJ/ma_tempelhalle_91268-38334924.jpg
Klee's exquisite colour sense and visual musical/poetry or whatever want to call it was there from the early days!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:10 (five years ago) link
Wait shit I voted Klimt accidentally.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
i barely know anything about either artist but to throw out a basic b take i feel like klee created a new visual world and klimt beautified the world we already live in.
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:42 (five years ago) link
this one is so delightful and mysterious, and seasonally appropriate
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/7f/bf/1b7fbf555197f8affe4567c81b7ce4a8.jpg
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link
"carnival in the snow"
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link
there were some artists heavily influenced by Klee in the art brut fashion like Dubuffet, who I quite liked at one time, but they lacked his charm or something.
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
a very nice klee thread
Paul Klee, A Plant and its Enemy, 1926 pic.twitter.com/fiUSOXPD2C— Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) December 18, 2018
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
would love to think that ace pic of him sitting having afternoon tea with Kandinsky in front of a bauhaus type house would be enough to induce a fatal heart attack in Sir Roger Scrotum!
― calzino, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
lol
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
just realized last week there's a framed print of The Kiss in the hallway leading to my bedroom. it's been there for 3 years and I just noticed it was THAT painting. Damn
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link
they’re both incredible but i love klee so goddamn much
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
Love the unfinished Klimt used here:http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/5/58/HRSMKRSPFR1991.jpg
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
i used to find Klimt overly gaudy and was against his work
against?
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
My favorite Klee is the Google Doodle he did today.
https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/img/XMuUedO6b5GaclF7d9p1GXOfueQ=/970x0/2018/12/18/b1252ccd-d629-46af-85f4-b8e51fcf67fd/klee-doodle.jpg
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
i used to find Klimt overly gaudy and was against his workagainst?― the late great, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 10:57 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the late great, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 10:57 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, i was repulsed by images like "woman in gold." it seemed to reflect an aesthetic sensibility that was absolutely alien to me. i was suspicious of him and this feeling has been hard to fully shake off.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
klee on the other hand i always loved. there was always something really warm and personal about his work. it seemed to get at a certain essence of modernism--the joy in experimentation
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
Voted Klee... There a natural mesmerism to them that I've always responded to.
Not into Klimt much, but everyone owes it to themselves to see at least one in person.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 08:20 (five years ago) link
It's kind of amazing to realize how much of the design aesthetic of the '50s and '60s comes from Paul Klee--from a thousand jazz album covers to the graphic works of Charles & Ray Eames (below) to the curtains my mom bought in 1960.
The Solar Do-Nothing Machine
http://www.eamesoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/12356539-635x500.jpg
See it in action: https://youtu.be/kv6YvKPXQzk
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 20 December 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link
(Throw in a dash of Joan Miro to that '50s design stew.)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 20 December 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
Klee by a mile, not even close.
― piscesx, Thursday, 20 December 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
klee by 560 meters
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
I’m expecting klee but who knows! Manet pulled off a surprise landslide.
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link
I went to an exhibition of Klees from the Met today. So much amazing stuff.
"Clarification" probably doesn't come out well in reproduction, but it was incredibly beautiful in full size.
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/483174/1005003/restricted
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:13 (five years ago) link
I love the softness of his line compared to the hard edges both of other modernist movements — like cubism — and much of the design of his colleagues at the bauhaus. It’s a more personal kind of modernism.
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
Not that i don’t like that other stuff too
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
"Theatre-Mountain-Construction" had me tripping out a little bit too.
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/484873/1005332/restricted
― jmm, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah that is magnificent
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:32 (five years ago) link
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:37 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
<3
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 04:43 (five years ago) link
klimt’s not bad though
― the late great, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 05:29 (five years ago) link
important update: a nice big print of Klimt's Forest of Beeches is hanging up in my workplace! nice to see a familiar beech when i walk in
― Karl Malone, Monday, 7 January 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
Love Klimt, nae fucker could paint a beech like him.
Also love this Klee: 'The Aged Phoenix: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwa7rUAWkAAW4jR.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 22:25 (five years ago) link
^ I love that.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
important update #2: there is now a Paul Klee poster hanging in front of my desk. That means that I am literally sitting between two Klimt and Klee posters. ILX: the thread: the life: the experience
the klee poster features his book cover for Kleine Welt:
https://i.imgur.com/Ym4qie3.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
That's awesome. I want to get a print of "Strange Garden" (1923), another that I saw at the exhibit last week:
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/483586/1006553/restricted
― jmm, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
Mushrooms, hour 3
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
you know, re: the overexposed klimt society portraits that everyone is tired of, if you ignore the faces and other anthromorphic bits and just focus on like the clothes and the background textures there are a lot of similarities to klee!
― the late great, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Gustav_Klimt_046.jpg
like enlarge that picture so you can only see the lower half of it and it doesn't look so different from klee!
― the late great, Friday, 11 January 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
oh I think some of his nature studies show he was more than just a stylist and even his more decorative/embellished stuff is actually quite loose and not as intensively overworked as it maybe looks at postcard scale.
― calzino, Friday, 11 January 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link