{"id":787,"date":"2011-11-16T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=787"},"modified":"2011-11-16T08:48:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T08:48:12","slug":"klee-motif-and-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Klee &#8211; (Motif and Rhythm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_788\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PB154820-reduced.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-788\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-788\" title=\"PB154820-reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PB154820-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PB154820-reduced.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PB154820-reduced-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PB154820-reduced-413x300.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Klee - Saint-Germain, near Tunis - 1914 - 22 x 32 cm - watercolour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This lovely watercolour shows us Klee&#8217;s wonderful use of the grid, which was the foundation for many of his compositions.\u00a0 The grid provides an overall motif of squares or rectangles which unifies the composition, and a disciplined artist will not let the subject disrupt the rhythm.\u00a0 In other words composition before information.<\/p>\n<p>Klee&#8217;s grids are organic which provide the poetic feel of his compositions.\u00a0 The freehand grid with it&#8217;s variety of sizes, can also convey the feeling of space, as Klee does so beautifully in this painting, particularly with the large vertical red rectangle near the bottom. Can you feel it being in front?\u00a0 Klee also provides a sub motif of triangles, which conveys oblique movement and the structural elements.<\/p>\n<p>The strength and rhythm of the blacks is most impressive as they ensure we will move gracefully through the composition.\u00a0 Note how the black triangle on the right balances the houses.\u00a0 Truly masterful!<\/p>\n<p>Having the grid throughout the painting integrating the foreground, the background and the sky is works beautifully and I am very impressed with the vertical running from the bottom\u00a0 to the top, next to the black triangle.\u00a0 Do you feel it being another plane?<\/p>\n<p>I am sure Klee listened when he painted this lyrical composition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lovely watercolour shows us Klee&#8217;s wonderful use of the grid, which was the foundation for many of his compositions.\u00a0 The grid provides an overall motif of squares or rectangles which unifies the composition, and a disciplined artist will not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=787\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,4,7,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}