Swiss-born German artist Paul Klee (1879 – 1940) had an imaginative style that was influenced by Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction. His inventive methods included working in different medias and utilizing a variety of materials. A trip to Tunisia offered Klee an artistic breakthrough as he was overwhelmed by its intense light and color. Afterward, Klee not only explored color theory, he lectured on the subject and wrote about it extensively. The "Paul Klee Notebooks on Color Theory" are considered as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's "A Treatise on Painting" was for the Renaissance. His legacy includes approximately 9,000 works of art.
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