Franz Marc - paintings, biography, quotes of Franz Marc. The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee – Making Visible. 1 of 7 Paul Klee is a giant of twentieth-century art and one of the great creative innovators of the time. Witty, inventive, magical, his exquisite paintings resist easy classification. He is mentioned in the same breath as Matisse, Picasso and his Bauhaus contemporary Kandinsky. He cuts a radical figure in European modernism. His influence on abstraction can be seen in the works of Rothko, Miró and beyond.
At Tate Modern this autumn, you can rediscover Klee’s extraordinary body of work and see it in a new light. The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee – Making Visible begins with the artist’s breakthrough during the First World War, when he first developed his individual abstract patchworks of colour that later became characteristic of his ‘magic square’ paintings. The heart of the exhibition will focus on the decade Klee spent teaching and working at the Bauhaus, the hotbed of modernist design. The 1930s then brought about radical changes. Key Ideas. Fire At Full Moon. Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon 1909-1992 Born to an English family in Dublin on 28 October 1909, Francis Bacon was the second of five children of Christina Firth, a steel heiress, and Edward Bacon, a race-horse trainer and former army officer.
His childhood, spent at Cannycourt, County Kildare, was blighted by asthma from which he suffered throughout his life. With the outbreak of war in 1914, his father took the family to London and joined the Ministry of War; they divided the post-war years between London and Ireland. Bacon repeatedly ran away from his school in Cheltenham (1924-6). After his authoritarian father, repelled by his burgeoning homosexuality, threw him out of the family home for wearing his mother’s clothes, Bacon arrived in London in 1926 with little schooling but with a weekly allowance of £3 from his mother. In 1927 Bacon travelled to Berlin (frequenting the city’s homosexual night-clubs) and Paris. Bibliography: John Russell, Francis Bacon, London, Paris and Berlin 1971, 2nd ed. Egon Schiele - The complete works.
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