File:Klee mirror.jpg

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   <title>File:Klee mirror.jpg</title>
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     <text xml:space="preserve">File:Klee mirror.jpg In the Magic Mirror. 1934. Oil on canvas, on board. The Art Institute of Chicago

By Paul Klee [German, born Switzerland, 1879–1940] 1934 / Oil on canvas, on board..

This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.

The information from the AIC website.. In the Magic Mirror reflects the disillusionment that colored much of Paul Klee's work following the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 and the artist's subsequent move to his native Switzerland.

Illustrating what Klee called his method of "taking a line for a walk," a meandering red line twists and turns down the center of the canvas, delineating the features of a face. The tight curves on the brow suggest the figure is concentrating, while the tension between the nose and mouth, which pull in opposite directions, conveys anxiety. In contrast to the cheerful pink cheeks, the figure's tear-shaped eyes communicate distress. The thinly painted, ghostly outline of the head and shoulders is in contrast to the crisp rendering of the face. Klee paints the heart, the true creative center, black, thereby suggesting the pall that settled over this figure, and by extension, the artist at this time..</text>

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