To all high school students

Swiss painter Paul Klee, who left behind XNUMX works, also displayed a rich talent for music and poetry.Many of his paintings have themes based on opera or literature, or titles that evoke these themes.

The Woman's House was painted in the year Klee began teaching at Bauhaus, a comprehensive art school.At that time, he was interested in the hierarchy of colors according to their lightness and saturation.In this <Women's House>, the screen is also painted vertically and horizontally, depending on the brightness of the deep blue-green color.On both sides of the banner, which appears to be embroidered with pale blue thread, there are dancers wearing pale blue robes, and further up, the tower of the Woman's Hall can be seen vaguely. is showing.Surrounding them are bright green and bright red round trees arranged rhythmically.What is especially characteristic is that a quill-like tool is used to draw undulating horizontal dotted lines that seem to carve small indentations, and the delicate balance of these lines, combined with the shape of the tree with its rounded leaves, It will remind you of staff lines and musical notes.A richly poetic melody created by the brilliance of the layers of color applied while maintaining a sense of deep transparency and the expressive lines created a harmonious harmony with each seemingly casually simplified form.

Art critic Will Grauman, who was close friends with Klee during his lifetime, highly praised The Woman's House, calling it ``an excellent work painted with deep love.''What is important for us is to go to the museum where the work is held and exhibit it, to carefully examine the actual painting, and to do extensive research on other works by Klee and the works of artists who were active around the same time as Klee. It is important to reexamine Grauman's comments from a critical standpoint.What kind of characteristics of the "form" and the characteristics of the way it is drawn can be seen, and what kind of historical background led to the creation of the work.By filling in the concerns and questions that arise one after another, you will deepen your understanding of the works and the artist, and the various images that come with the paintings will expand even further.Cultivating an eye for appreciation while satisfying intellectual curiosity, rather than looking at paintings blindly, is the purpose of studying and researching art, and this is the very method we must always remember.

Basic information about <Women's House>:

• • “History” (Who has passed through the hands of the artist since it was painted, and how has it been handed down to this day?)
  • "Exhibition history" (when and what kind of exhibitions it was exhibited in, and how it was viewed)
  • "Literature" (When, what kind of books, and how has it been covered?)

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