8. MY UNIVERSITY ART EXPERIENCE (PART 3) (Paul Klee and the Bauhaus)
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PAUL KLEE, THE BAUHAUS AND KURT KRANZ Early while at the university I came across the paintings of Paul Klee. I thought his work magic. I liked his rich transparent watercolor washes and his collage buildup of a variety of materials gave his watercolors a unique tactile quality and physical presence. It was that structural approach to 2-dimensional painting that intrigued me...not to mention his fabulous color combinations that looked like stained glass mosaics. Klee's paintings put me in a new world, a richer world, a more imaginative world... I used Klee's inspiration to create my own work... EXAMPLES OF MY UNIVERSITY WORK IN 1966 CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED I did a series of paintings based on pulsating grids which were geometric and yet full of the light I felt in nature. Klee had written of painting as a parallel to nature and that was what I was aiming at. It was magic to me that I could create a sense of space and depth and yet limit the