[PW] Paul Klee quotation

[Sylvia Milne]

This is from Grove Art Online

"Klee's legacy as a teacher also survives in the Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch 
(1925), the second of the Bauhaus books edited by Gropius and Moholy-Nagy 
and designed by the latter. From the famous beginning, which introduces 'an 
active line on a walk', the book progresses through an analysis of 
relationships of pictorial form, emphasizing that all is rooted in man's own 
perceptions of himself and the world around him: the human circulatory 
system, a waterfall and a spinning top all become examples of motion and 
balance. As in his art, empathy with one's physical self and surroundings is 
regarded as inseparable from abstract principles. The four sections of this 
handbook are a précis of extensive lecture notes."


Sylvia Milne

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan" <dan8bks at yahoo.com>
To: "Project Wombat" <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: [PW] Paul Klee quotation


>   A library patron is trying to verify the provenance and locate the 
> source or origin of a quotation attributed to artist Paul Klee, who 
> described drawing as taking a line for a walk.
>
>     The websites listed below, searched by the patron, all allude to this 
> quotation, but do not cite the publication or the precise circumstances in 
> which Klee actually made (or wrote) this statement, whether while he was 
> teaching at the Bauhaus,  etc.
>
>      Thanks for your help.
>
>  Dan
>
>
>  http://www.goldenessays.com/free_essays/1/art/paul-klee.shtml
>  http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5/art/linewalk.html
>  http://sarajofrieden.blogspot.com/2007/10/take-line-for-walk.html
>  http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673600028312
>  http://www.alfredo-haeberli.com/products/take-a-line/1.html
>  http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/journeys/
>  http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,636047,00.html
>
>
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