Paul Klee

is an artist whose pictures seem to resemble, not pictures, but a sample book of patterns of linoleum.

Paul Klee's pictures seem to resemble, not pictures, but a sample book of patterns of linoleum.

is a painter whose objects do not disappear completely as in abstract art, but their withdrawal from immediate recognition forms a kind of continuous event in a world rendered newly prominent by this withdrawal.

Klee’s powerful, dream-like images are usually considered a precursor to ‘abstract expressionism’. Denounced as ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis, for Heidegger they open a new way between traditional art and merely or fully abstract works: the objects in a Klee painting do not disappear completely as in abstract art, but their withdrawal from immediate recognition forms a kind of continuous event in a world rendered newly prominent by this withdrawal.

is an artist whose works make visible the whole world a person inhabits, without mind/body dualism, opposed to the reductive analysis of merely physiological symptoms.

A Klee painting also makes visible the whole world a person inhabits, without mind/body dualism, opposed to the reductive analysis of merely physiological symptoms.

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Paul Klee