Rock-Cut Temple
Paul Klee
1925
- Medium
- Pen and black ink on buff laid paper, laid down on artist's mount comprised of cream wove card ruled in pen and black ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 16.4 × 26.9 cm (6 1/2 × 10 5/8 in.); Mount: 24.2 × 34.6 cm (9 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
A professor at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1933, Klee often experimented with the systemic use of line. One of Klee’s favored theories, that of the distinction between form and formation through the use of line, is demonstrated here. In this drawing, parallel lines create new architectural structures, highlighting the formative power of the artist and his line. For Klee, the end result, the form, was not important; the act of creation and the limitless possibilities of line were what mattered.
