I’ve been having a hard time thinking of subjects to draw, lately. I usually draw something related to my daily activities, but since I began playing the violin again, I think I’ve mined that vein for all it was worth. I turned to Paul Klee, one of my favorite artists, for inspiration. I got several […]
Inspired by Paul Klee’s sketch: Drang for der Vanderung, 1940.
I’ve noticed that Paul Klee has many different ways to draw eyes, in his artwork. I tried some of them in my sketch below.
I’m reading a fascinating piece about Paul Klee by Claude Cernuschi called ‘Paul Klee and Language’ (in ‘Paul Klee Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art’, John Sallis editor, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Distributed by The University of Chicago Press 2012). One insight suggested by this article is that Klee’s use of symbols, icons […]
The sketch below results from Paul Klee’s idea, put simply, that an artist can be likened to a tree. Recalling another Klee notion that the role of an artist is not to reproduce what is visible but “to make visible” what can’t be seen. In that regard, the roots of a tree represent the hidden […]
A couple of posts ago, I addressed the concept of a visual language, and placed pictograms (anthropomorphized alphabetic letters) in a pattern. However, this missed the mark: my pattern is sequential. In a visual language all symbols are presented simultaneously without obvious relationships among elements. I am still trying to gather more information about visual […]
I have been reading about the art of Paul Klee, one of my favorite visual artists. One writer notes (if I’m correct in recalling his thesis) that the visual elements in Klee’s work are ideograms (like emojis that relate abstract ideas). He also notes that the ideograms are used a visual language. What is fascinating […]
According to Paul Klee, making artwork is not a matter of having an idea of what the finished product will look like, but rather constructing a vision that emerges as the work progresses. This is a great idea. BUT how does one start. There has to be a germ of an idea that can be […]
I started reading about my favorite artist (Paul Klee) again recently. Paul Klee’s elemental theory of creativity is that “[I]t is imperative that the artwork embody not merely the form that appearances assume, but the forming by which it is installed.” according to John Sallis in his essay, “Klee’s Philosophical Vision”(1). Although the meaning of […]
I’ve seen Native American silver pieces of animals with a spiral design inside their bodies. I was told that symbol represented their life force. I began this sketch with such a spiral. I couldn’t imagine an appropriate body for this life force to inhabit, so I left it as it was. I just glanced at […]
