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"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."--Paul Klee
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Geoffrey wrote: "Paul Klee?"You got it again, Geoffrey! You're on a roll! Paul Klee
__________'s academic training focused mostly on his drawing skills.
During his studies,... he met {wife}, a pianist, and the couple married in {year}. {His wife's} work as a piano instructor supported __________________'s early years as an artist, even after the birth of their son...
_________________'s trip to Tunisia...changed his relationship with color. "Color and I are one," he declared in his diaries. "I am a painter."
During the {war} he enjoyed financial success._____________ was reserved in his opinions against the war...he enthusiastically accepted a position on the Executive Committee of Revolutionary Artists.
_______________ taught at The Bauhaus for ten years...he taught workshops in book binding and painting stained glass...
...but this brief period of calm ended in January {year}...
__________________ was denounced as a "cultural Bolshevik," and his work derided as "subversive" and "insane."
Two years after returning to {country}, _______________ fell ill with a disease that would later be diagnosed as progressive schleroderma, an autoimmune disease that hardens the skin and other organs. The artist created only 25 works the year after he fell ill, but his creativity resurged and increased to a record 1,253 works in {year}. His late works dealt with the grief, pain, resilience, and acceptance of approaching death.
____________'s artistic legacy has been immense, even if many of his successors have not referenced his work openly as an apparent source or influence.
_________________'s use of signs and symbols particularly interested the artists of the New York School, especially those interested in mythology, the unconscious, and primitivism (as well as the art of the self-trained and that of children) ________________'s use of color as an expressive medium of human emotion in its own right also appealed to the Color Field painters.
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