smiling portrait of a lady

Due to copyright issues, we rarely exhibit works by 20th century artists. But thanks to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts today, we can share with you the work of Paul Klee, one of the most interesting artists of the interwar period.

Paul Klee gained international acclaim in the 1920s when he belonged to Germany’s influential modernist design school, the Bauhaus. In early 1933, labelled a “degenerate” artist by the Nazi authorities, he fled back to his native Switzerland, where he lived until his death in 1940. Klee’s art is highly praised in both Europe and America for its fantastical, visual poetic, intuitive and spontaneous qualities. His appreciation for children’s art – an expression of unspoiled creativity – is revealed in his traditional three-dimensional forms, his renunciation of proportion, and his use of simplified lines.

Side note: Sit back and admire Paul Klee’s fall paintings . 🙂

P.S.: We love presenting unexpected masterpieces like this! If you want more art in your life and the spaces around you, don’t forget to check out our beautiful 2023 Daily Art Calendar . 🙂