Paul Klee

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Paul Klee
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Paul Klee was a Swiss Expressionist Painter who
lived from 1879-1940.
Garden Painting 1926
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New Harmony 1936
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VOCABULARY

• Color
• Line
• Pattern
• Paul Klee

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COLOR Cool colors tend to mean calmness,
serenity, sadness. Blue Green Violet.Warm
colors tend to mean action, warmness, anger.Red
Yellow Orange.The colors you choose will show a
emotion or feelingabout yourself.
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LINE A line is an identifiable path of a point
moving in space. It can vary in width, direction
and length. What kinds of line will you use to
draw your self-portrait?
Horizontal Vertical lines Diagonal
\\\\\ Angled /\/\/\/\/ Curved
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PatternRepetition of color, line, or
shape.Paul Klee used a pattern ofshape in this
example.
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This portrait by Paul Klee is sometimes called,
Head of a Man Going Senile, which tells you Klee
had a sense of humor.
Senecio 1922
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Can you see the female character carrying fruit
on her head? The painting is telling a story
Zitronin 1932
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Garten-Plan 1922
Look at the different kinds of line.
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Flora on the Sand
Is this a pattern?
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Instructions

• Make a pattern with tissue paper squares on your
  paper. Glue down tissue paper.
• Apply mod podge to ensure that the tissue paper
  stays down. Let dry.
• Draw your self-portrait with a Sharpie on top of
  your pattern!