Paul Klee and the Secrets of Nature
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Fundació Joan Miró Parc de Montjuïc s/n, 08038 Barcelona

Image courtesy of Paul Klee, Fundacio Joan Miro
This exhibition focuses on the ongoing fascination around the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) and his observation of nature and natural phenomena, from his earliest educational stages to his final artistic period. His curiosity for the origins of form and artistic expression led him to the dutiful study of his immediate surroundings. This background, along with his reading of books like The Metamorphosis of Plants, by J. W. Goethe, were at the heart of the courses he taught at the Bauhaus, during the years the early avant-gardes were being consolidated theoretically.
His period as a teacher gave way to the elaboration of reflections in the format of pedagogical compendiums, derived as they were from his careful study of nature. Klee continued to work in these areas in what was a mature synthesis, and they became his artistic refuge amidst the challenges of his later years, where he was forced to live with a degenerative disease.
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