Mrs. Godfrin

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Paul Klee’s work is simple and complicated at the same time. Paul Klee was a Swiss artist and teacher from the early 1900's who liked to turn things he saw into simple geometric shapes. His "Cat and Bird” painting from 1928 is a classic example. Klee grew up in a musical family and was himself a violinist. He chose to study art, not music, and he attended the Munich Academy in 1900. Klee loved to use continuous lines in his work, the cat's head and the bird were drawn with one continuous line. He experiments with both geometric shapes and color.