Paul Klee

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Paul Klee

PAUL KLEE– AGES 5 – 7 | ONLINE EDITION
Step 1 - Introducing the Paul Klee Slideshow Guide
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MOTIVATION
Would you like to learn how to play a musical instrument? Which instrument would you
like to learn? (TAKE SEVERAL RESPONSES) Today’s artist was also an excellent
musician. He started playing when he was only seven years old. Can you guess what
instrument he played? Let’s listen to some music by his favorite composer, Mozart. Listen
carefully to hear that instrument. If you recognize the instrument, pretend to play it while
the music plays.
ASSEMBLY AUDIO
(WHILE MOZART’S CASSATION ALLEGRO PLAYS, PANTOMIME VIOLIN PLAYING.)
Click Audio to play music
Can you tell what instrument we heard? (VIOLIN) Yes, he was a violin player. His name
is Paul Klee, and he was surrounded by music as a child. His father was a music teacher,
and his mother was a singer. Klee loved music, but he also enjoyed art as a child. His
grandmother gave him a box of colored chalk. She would read him fairy tales and have
him draw pictures of the stories with chalk. Do you have a favorite fairy tale story that you
would like to draw? When he grew up he chose to become an artist for his job, but he
always loved music.
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DEVELOPMENT
1. EYE OF BEETHOVEN NOTEBOOK
Paul Klee was a very good student in school. On this math homework page, he drew this
funny looking man and, above, another famous music composer, Beethoven. Do you
think his teacher liked seeing these drawings? Can you recognize what signs are right
below Beethoven’s face? (MUSICAL NOTES) Yes, they are musical notes.
When learning how to play an instrument, you learn to read music just like you learn to
read words in a book. These four musical notes written by Beethoven are very famous.
You will hear them in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Listen for “da, da, da, DAH” at the
beginning and repeated a few times. I will signal with my hand each time those notes are
played. Have you heard this music before?
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1 PAUL KLEE – Ages 5 – 7 | MeetTheMasters Online Edition
ASSEMBLY AUDIO
(PLAY OPENING OF BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH SYMPHONY AND SIGNAL WHEN FOUR
NOTES ARE PLAYED.)
2. PHOTO OF ARTIST IN STUDIO
This is Klee sitting in his studio after a long day of painting. Does it look like he is resting?
(YES) Klee was always busy painting and often worked on more than one picture at a
time. How many paintings do you count on the easels behind him? (FOUR) Can you
guess which of these paintings I’m going to show next?
3. SENECIO, HEAD OF A MAN
Did you guess this one? What do we call the people who wear funny costumes at the
circus and make us laugh? (CLOWNS) Klee loved circus clowns and painted them a lot.
Does the face look realistic, like a real clown? (NO) Klee painted in his own special way.
He didn’t need to make the face look real, like in a photograph. How did he make his face
look different? (VERY ROUND SHAPE, EYES DON’T MATCH, TRIANGLE EYEBROW,
SQUARE SHAPES PAINTED ON FACE) This kind of art is called ABSTRACT, because
it doesn’t look like the real thing.
Do you notice that his eyebrows don’t match? Klee painted the dark eyebrow on the right
like an arrow pointing our eyes in a circle around the face (INDICATE CLOCKWISE
AROUND THE FACE). Klee liked to show MOVEMENT in his paintings by getting our
eyes to travel as we look at the painting. He would use lines, shapes and colors to help
our eyes move.
When Klee grew up he married Lily, a music teacher. Can you guess what musical
instrument she played? Guess while I make believe I’m playing her instrument.
(PANTOMIME PLAYING PIANO) You are right; she was a very good piano player. They
had a son named Felix. Let’s look at Klee’s painting of their child.
4. PORTRAIT OF FELIX
What colors did Klee use? (BLACK AND WHITE) He used VALUES of black and white.
VALUE in art means using light and dark of the same color, different shades of the same
color. What is the darkest color value in this painting? (BLACK) What is the lightest color
value? (WHITE) Klee painted this with WATERCOLOR. What did he use to get the color
black lighter and lighter? (WATER) That’s right; when painting with watercolor, you add
more water to get different values like these different shades of gray.
Klee’s wife worked outside of the house as a piano teacher while he stayed at home
painting and taking care of Felix. While the baby was napping, Klee would paint in the
kitchen of their small home. He would also do all the cleaning and cooking. The next
painting shows us one of his favorite dishes that he cooked.
5. AROUND THE FISH
Do you like to eat fish? (YES/NO) Klee liked to fish in his spare time and would cook the
fish he caught. Klee called this Around the Fish, because he wants our eyes to travel in a
circle around the fish on the blue plate. Can you guess where he wanted our eyes to start
traveling after looking at the fish? (AT THE ARROW) Klee liked using arrows to point the
way. (INDICATE COUNTER-CLOCKWISE AROUND THE FISH) Can you name some of
the things around the fish? (TAKE SEVERAL ANSWERS) Klee painted from his
imagination, so we might not be able to recognize everything he painted.
Would you like to see a magical forest full of topsy-turvy birds?
6. LANDSCAPE WITH YELLOW BIRDS
What do you think Klee wanted you to notice first? (BIRDS) Yes, that’s why he painted
them in bright yellow. He put them in a circle, so our eyes will make the trip around the
forest. Can you see some birds that look a little funny? (UPSIDE DOWN BIRD, BIRD ON
RIGHT SIDE WITH OTHER HALF IN MIDDLE)
Now let’s take a look at a tree house that we might find in this magical forest.
7. TREE OF HOUSES
Wouldn’t it be fun to play in this tree house? Let’s have our eyes take a walk up this big
tree by joining the child at the bottom ready to climb the ladder. Where do you want to
stop on the way up the tree? (SEVERAL RESPONSES) Now that we are already up at
the top, how does Klee get our eyes to move down again? (BIRD POINTING DOWN)
Yes, the bird is like another one of his favorite arrows giving us MOVEMENT back down to
the bottom.
Klee was always trying new ways of painting. In Tree of Houses, he glued two pieces of
fabric to a board, leaving a border all around. He liked the TEXTURE and rough feel of
the fabric. He didn’t want it to be perfectly smooth. If you look closely, you can see the
fabric in the background. TEXTURE is how something feels and looks. Can you name
something in this room that might have a rough or smooth texture? (SEVERAL
RESPONSES) In a painting, we have to feel the TEXTURE with our eyes since we can’t
feel it with our hands.
8. HEROIC STROKES OF THE BOW
Are you ready to be a musician again? Can you remember the instrument that Klee
learned to play as a child? (VIOLIN) How do you make music with a violin? (SHOW ME.)
Klee showed us how to play a violin in this painting. But he doesn’t paint a person playing
the violin. He was an ABSTRACT artist so how did he show us? (BLACK LINE GOING
BACK AND FORTH) Yes, he painted the MOVEMENT of the bow going back and forth
across the violin strings. Now let’s “play” our violins in time to the music.
ASSEMBLY AUDIO –
(AS BEETHOVEN’S VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR OP 61 PLAYS,
PANTOMIME VIOLIN PLAYING WITH MOVEMENT OF BOW.)
You were an excellent violin player! But our musical playing is not over yet! We’re
moving to another part of the orchestra.
9. KETTLEDRUMMER
In the back of orchestras sit the drum players. Sometimes they have to raise their
drumsticks way above their heads before hitting the drum to make a really loud noise.
That is what this person is doing in Klee’s painting. His arm and drum stick have become
one line. Would you like to be a drummer now? Listen carefully to the music, and follow
along with me as we “play” our drums like Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
ASSEMBLY AUDIO
(PLAY END OF TCHAIKOVSKY’S 1812 OVERTURE AND
PANTOMIME DRUM PLAYING TO MATCH THE MUSIC.)
CONCLUSION
Weren’t we excellent drum players? Did you have fun being a musician today? We got to
“play” musical instruments while learning about the art of Paul Klee. Aren’t you glad he
loved both art and music!
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Step 2 - Learning From: Paul Klee
Abstract Shape
Klee used his imagination to draw his ideas. His work does not look real, so we call it
abstract. Abstract is simple shape and line. We can use simple shapes and lines to make
an abstract fish.
Draw your own fish that is abstract!
Realistic
Abstract
Movement
Klee used shape, line and color to make our eyes move around his art.
Repeating a line, color or shape can make our eyes move.
Still
Moving
Use a shape of your own and repeat it to make your eye move.
Still
Moving
Color Can Create Movement
Klee used color to make our eyes move.
Still
Moving
Color shapes one color.
Color shapes different colors.
Pattern
Repeating lines and shapes can make patterns.
Think of a fish jumping and the line pattern it makes on the water.
Use repeating lines to make a pattern.
Add colors and
patterns to the
abstract fish.
Make your eyes
move around
the fish.
We will paint a
fish like this for
our art activity.
The last few pages of this section contain the Art Activity for Paul Klee. This step-by-step
outline will be a guide for instructing your child(ren) through the activity. The
parent/instructor should review all steps necessary to complete this project before
beginning any work.
Cut out the Artist Profile Slip below and attach it to the back of the completed art project.
PAUL KLEE (Klay)
Swiss
1879-1940
Swiss artist, Paul Klee’s inspiration came from nature, music, and a wonderful imagination.
The children built on his themes and their imaginations to create a fanciful composition full
of movement, color, and texture.
ART ACTIVITY EMPHASIS: Abstract Compositions
MEDIA: Paper, Black Crayon, Tempera Wash
PAUL KLEE (Klay)
Swiss
1879-1940
Swiss artist, Paul Klee’s inspiration came from nature, music, and a wonderful imagination.
The children built on his themes and their imaginations to create a fanciful composition full
of movement, color, and texture.
ART ACTIVITY EMPHASIS: Abstract Compositions
MEDIA: Paper, Black Crayon, Tempera Wash
Step 3 - Working With: Art Activity Instructions
ARTIST
PAUL KLEE (Klay)
(1879-1940)
Swiss
ART ELEMENTS
Line, color and texture
LEVEL
Beginning
EMPHASIS
Abstract composition with line, texture and
color
MEDIA
VOCABULARY
Paper, black crayon and tempera Abstract, movement, pattern, contrast, line,
wash
texture, secondary, warm and cool colors
PRINT
Around the Fish
SUGGESTED MUSIC
Music of the 1900s
MATERIALS FOR INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENTS
One 9” x 12” light blue construction paper
Paper Towel
Artist Profile Slip
Black crayons
9” Paper plates
3 dabs (size of nickels) of tempera paint - magenta, yellow, turquoise
Watercolor paintbrushes (rounded and soft)
Water cups
Water pitcher (for instructor only)
Pencil
PREPARATION
Display the Klee print in front of the room. Tape your 9” x 12” light blue paper to the board,
horizontally. Have black crayon, prepared paper plate palette with the three tempera colors,
paintbrush and water cup close by.
SET-UP [ 5 minutes ]
Distribute the materials:
SUPPLIES: [3] Black crayon, paintbrush, and water cup
PAPER: [3] One 9” x 12” light blue construction paper, paper towel, and artist profile slip
Teacher needs to help with: Preparing and distributing paint PALETTES, Distributing and
pouring WATER when needed
ORIENTATION [ 5 minutes ]
Our master artist Paul Klee came from what country? (SWITZERLAND) Are his paintings
realistic or abstract? (ABSTRACT) What do we mean when we say Klee’s art is abstract?
(DOES NOT LOOK REAL) What kinds of things did Klee like to paint? (FISH, MUSIC)
Klee’s work has lots of movement. How does he make our eyes move around his paintings?
(WITH LINES, COLORS, TEXTURES, AND SHAPES) Let’s get ready to draw and paint an
abstract painting with movement just like Paul Klee.
DEMONSTRATION AND ACTIVITY
Have the students repeat each step immediately with their materials:
ORGANIZE YOUR WORK AREA [ 3 minutes ]
With your pencil print your name on the back of your light blue 9” x 12” paper.
Arrange it horizontally on your desk (demonstrate).
Put your brush and water cup on your paper towel in the upper corner of your desk.
Put your black crayon, pencil, and artist profile slip in the other corner.
CREATING YOUR ABSTRACT FISH DESIGN [10 minutes]
(Demonstrate with black crayon for visibility.)
1, 2
1.Using black crayons, have the students draw a dot
halfway between the top and bottom and two fingers in
from the left side of the paper.
2.Draw a large, curving line from the dot to the top corner
of
the paper. Draw a second large, curving line from the left
edge through the dot to the bottom corner of the paper,
forming a fish shape.
3.Add a vertical, straight or wavy line about two fingers in from the right side to form a tail on
your fish.
4.Draw a vertical, curving line that starts about a hand’s width from the top left corner and
ends about a hand’s width from the bottom left corner, forming a head to the fish. Draw a
horizontal line through the body of the fish, and add an interesting side fin connecting these
two lines.
5.Add the opposite line to #4 without going through the fish.
Add a large, creative top fin and a small, interesting bottom fin to your fish. Add an eye to the
head of your fish.
3
4
5, 6
Fill at least two sections of your fish with different patterns to add texture and movement.
Refer to the Art Packet for pattern and texture ideas. Now you have an abstract fish design!
PAUL KLEE– AGES 5 – 7 | O NLINE EDITION
ADDING COLOR WITH WATERCOLOR WASH [ 20 minutes ]
Review color mixing by having each student mix a small spot of each secondary color on his
or her palette. Take lightest color first (yellow + magenta = orange, yellow + turquoise =
green, turquoise + magenta = violet).
Demonstrate the use of lots of water and a soft brush to gently wash in one color to each
defined shape. Apply water to one shape at a time. Mix a color on the palette, dip brush in
water, and then apply to the shape.
Encourage warm colors for the fish, and cool colors for the background to create contrast
and make the fish stand out. Remember how warm colors next to cool colors made our eyes
move in our Art Packets? Let’s make our fish move!
The black crayon defines the shapes and resists the paint.
Stress painting light shapes first to dark shapes last, so that the palette and paints stay clean.
Mix a little paint at a time and apply with lots of water.
Students may leave some areas unpainted.
Students continue until they have a very colorful composition.
MOUNTING THE ARTIST PROFILE SLIP [ 2 minutes ]
(Profile slips for each artist are provided. They give a brief description of the artist, the
technique, and the media used in the art activity. They should be mounted on the back of
each art project after it is completed.)
Write your name on the front of the artist profile slip.
Using glue, mount the profile slip on the back of your artwork.
Encourage students to discuss their artwork at home using this artist slip of information.
CONCLUSION
Paul Klee was a master at using texture, line, and color. Now let’s see your beautiful
paintings. Wiggle your fish gently like he’s lazily swimming, if:
Your fish has texture.
Your fish is colorful.
Your fish is abstract.
Excellent! Please let your fish rest on your desk now.
THIS CONCLUDES THE PAUL KLEE
UNIT.

Paul Klee

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