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Klee and Cobra | A Child's Play

Klee and Cobra

A Child’s Play
2011

The realization that children have their own type of childish creativity and the potential to express themselves through art was a crucial driving force in Paul Klee’s own creative work: from pieces displaying the spontaneous texture of finger painting to his Dada-esque puppets made of found materials. Animated by Klee, after World War II painters from the group of artists known as CoBrA in turn lighted on the child’s visual world as a source of inspiration for their new, revolutionary artistic departure.

This publication sheds light on the little known history of the reception of Klee by CoBrA artists Asger Jorn, Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, and others. In a dialogue and confrontation with the eruptive works of the CoBrA artists, we see Klee’s oeuvre from a new, surprisingly wild side. The visual exchange is marked by expressivity and divided into thematic fields, such as play and mischief, imaginary worlds of animals and plants, or grotesque faces and masks. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2982-6)

Exhibition schedule: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, May 25—September 4, 2011 | Followed by the Louisiana Museum, Humblebæk, Denmark, and the Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, the Netherlands

    Author(s)

    Michael Baumgartner
    Jonathan Fineberg
    Hanne Lundgren Nielsen
    Kirsten Degel
    Osamu Okuda
    Willemijn Stokvis
    Katja Weitering

    Publisher

    Hatje Cantz

    ISBN

    978-3-7757-2983-3

    Language

    English

    Type

    Catalog
    Title Year Page Number ID
    Het laddertje 1949 33 2224
    Fauna 1949 34 2225
    Barricade 1949 59 2226
    Twee dieren 1946 81 2227
    Het Karretje 1949 81 2228
    Goede Morgen Haan, pag 01-titelblad 1949 82 2229
    Femme-fleur 1949 101 2230
    De parelvisser 1948 118 2231
    L'oeil bleu 1948 120 2232
    Fantastische dieren 1947 138 2233
    Fête de la tristesse 1949 147 2234
    Twee vogels 1949 161 2235
    KBHVN 1949 192 2236
    Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte 1949 193 2237
    ZT/Fabulous animals 1948 194 2238
    Verschroeide aarde [I] 1951 204 2239
    Title Year
    Klee & Cobra 2012
    Klee + Cobra 2012
    Klee und Cobra 2011
    Title Year
    Klee en Cobra 2012
    Klee und Cobra 2011
    Cobra nr. 4 1949
    Reflex #1 1948
    Reflex #2 1948

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