Avoid the Missing Background Mistake. Learn the Secret of Paul Klee's Grid with Rob the Art Teacher
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
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Paul Klee is one of my go-to artists when I am coaching composition. He is a true picture-MAKER. Who is your go-to artist for understanding composition?
Klee’s example is especially useful for students facing down the ‘missing background’ problem. That moment when the subject of the drawing or painting simply floats on a blank background because there was no plan what to do.
Paul Klee shows how the three key elements of a picture - its subject, the open space around the subject, and the edges of the picture - are all connected to each other in the eye of a picture maker.
In this video I share some simple techniques for solving this problem before it occurs. The video includes 5 Art Activities that are suitable for Elementary, Middle, and High school students, art teachers, and art hobbyists. It is especially useful for young artists beginning to make observational drawings and paintings.
PICTURE CREDITS:
This video includes artworks by Paul Klee (Swiss-German, 1879-1940), Wayne Thiebaud (American, 1920-2021), Alice Herbst (Swedish, b.1993), and students from The American Elementary School in Gdynia.
MUSIC:
This video uses the music “Snow Fantasy” Koto instrumental by an unknown artist, from a vinyl recording (1967).
Free download file: “05-snow-fantasy” at archive.org/details/JapaneseM...
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Rob Garrett is an accomplished art teacher, writer, and curator. With fine art and art history degrees from leading New Zealand Universities, he is a qualified teacher with experience teaching art to all ages, having worked in primary (elementary) schools, high schools, and higher education art schools (academies), including a time as the Head of New Zealand’s oldest art school, in Dunedin. His public service includes periods as a senior manager of arts development and as a Council member (governance) with New Zealand’s arts council. His international work with artists has included directing and establishing artist residency programmes, managing New Zealand’s presence at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, and curating numerous public art exhibitions, festivals, and city-wide programs.
Thanks for the composition tips. I enjoyed the choice of Klee and your 6th grade student examples!
Thanks so much for your feedback! 🤗
He’s one of my favorite artists!
!! and so good to learn from in the classroom 😊
This held way more than i anticipated--thanks for a great upload! The algorithm gods sent me a good one :)
I'm a musician not an artist, but after a head injury in 2017 i started drawing. I haven't known how to describe it but Klee, Kandinsky, and Miro are some of my faves and i'm just realising that it's the same dam thing, without me taking the final step of painting it out/turning it into something.
This gives me ideas--thank you again!
Thank you so much for your encouraging feedback. It means a lot to me to hear how the video helped you! Best wishes for your drawings! Those a re three pretty cool artists to be inspired by.
Klee was a genius as was his fellow teacher at the Bauhaus, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. They understood color, light and composition far ahead of their time. Thanks for the presentation and the lesson!
Well said! Thanks for your encouraging feedback!
Good insight 😮.
Thank you!
Thanks for this!
Thank you!! So nice to receive your thanks! 😊
Such a good teacher!
Thank you so much for your kind feedback!
Great information video. I kept trying to turn off the background noise. ,
Thanks for your feedback... While I'm glad you enjoyed the information, apologies that the soundtrack disturbed you!
I am looking for books on paul klee's teaching unfortunately the only ones avaialble are his lecture notes volume one. This is about 250USD are there any resources that you know of where his lectures and theries can be found, my preference is not to get some of the cheaper writings about him but rather read about his theories directly, as he was a teacher
Thanks for reaching out.
My first go-to for both online and print publications on Paul Klee is the Paul Klee museum, "Zentrum Paul Klee" in Bern, Switzerland. There are a couple of books about his teaching, and there is also a vast online catalogue of his works. Here are some links. Note that you have language options in the top right of each webpage (as the default language is German). Also note that although most of the publications on Klee are in English, German, and French, the two specifically about his teaching are only in German.
Museum online shop (books): www.zpk.org/en/visitor-informationshop/webshop-2031.html
2 books (in German) about his teaching:
www.zpk.org/en/visitor-informationshop/webshop/meister-klee-lehrer-am-bauhaus_0-2045.html
www.zpk.org/en/visitor-informationshop/webshop/paul-klee-der-liebe-gott-am-bauhaus-2059.html
The online digital catalogue:
www.emuseum.zpk.org/eMuseumPlus
Bauhaus Kooperation also has some excellent online resources about Klee's teaching:
www.bauhauskooperation.com/knowledge/the-bauhaus/training/curriculum/classes-by-paul-klee/
Finally, why not read Klee's 1925 "Pedagogical Notebook" which was translated into English and is available online (see the yellow PDF download button near the top of the excellent brief discussion of his teaching here:
www.bauhaus-bookshelf.org/bauhaus_book_2_paul_klee_pedagogical_sketchbook_pdf_download.html
Hope this helps!!
@@RobtheArtTeacher Thanks for taking the time to provide me with the information.I had a look through them. Will do a look through for the nine lessons of his form theory, as discussed by the Bauhaus Kooperation link, hopefully there is an English translation of these lessons. Appreciated the link to the Pedagogical Notebook (which I did not know about) and although I did not have the chance to go through it in detail seems similar to Kandinsky's Point and Line to Plane. (Thankfully they are in English). I am quite surprised there are not more widely available for Klee English translations available compared to Matisse or Kandinsky.
The whole Bauhaus Kooperation website is in both German and English (see the DE | EN option at the top right).
These additional resources might help:
www.sommerakademie.zpk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/2016/PDFs/Reader_Michael_Baumgartner/Baumgartner_Paul_Klee._From_Structural_Analysis_and_Morphogenesis_to_Art.pdf
www.openculture.com/2016/03/3900-pages-of-paul-klees-personal-notebooks-are-now-online.html
kb.osu.edu/bitstream/1811/25239/1/From_the_Arrow_to_the_Fish.pdf
@@RobtheArtTeacher Thanks for taking the time to provide the information, reached out to them and they provided some stuff,. Keep up with it and thanks
@@romelmadrayart that's great! happy to be able to help.
What brand of paints are you using in the video? Thank you.
They are from Flying Tiger Copenhagen (with stores across Europe and online)
Pablo pissarro style
Nice! 🙂
Interesting content but the music is incredibly distracting
Thank you for your feedback