California Towhee Is A Little Rugged Around The Edges On A Hot Desert Day — Image by kenne
“One eye sees, the other feels.”
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Painting by Paul Klee — MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist and philosopher. His highly individual style was influenced
by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Wikipedia
For those of you who follow this blog (kenneturner.com) titled “Becoming is Superior to Being,” know that’s a Paul Klee quote.
With all the media talk about “Childless Cat Ladies,” I feel driven to share this Klee painting.
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Angel In Vortex Revised 4 comments
Angel In Vortex (11/25/06) — Abstract by kenne
“The angel comes with windy upward drafts, with transcendental longings; the Duende arrives with demonic undertow,
with downdrafts of emotion. Both are fundamental inner disturbances, fissures of being, ways of putting the self at risk,
liberating figures. They are extremities of human imagination. There is a place on the endangered shoreline
where they seem to meet and where they may be indistinguishable from each other.
. . . Rilke wrote: ‘Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end
of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. The further one dares to go,
the more decent, the more personal, the more unique a life becomes.”‘
— from The Demon and The Angel; Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration, by Edward Hirsch
“Man’s ability to measure the spiritual, earthbound, and cosmic, set against his physical helplessness
is his fundamental tragedy. The tragedy of spirituality.” — Paul Klee
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Cat and Bird 1 comment
Cat and Bird by Paul Klee moma.org
Predator
It takes only a minute
to bury a wren.
Two trowels full of dirt
and he’s in.
The cat as the threshold
sits longer in doubt
deciding whether
to stay in or go out.
— Billy Collins
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Arrival — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Arrival
And yet one arrives somehow,
finds himself loosening the hooks of
her dress
in a strange bedroom—
feels the autumn
dropping its silk and linen leaves
about her ankles.
The tawdry veined body emerges
twisted upon itself
like a winter wind . . . !
— William Carlos Williams
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterfly Entering a World of Color — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Color possesses me.
I don’t have to pursue it.
It will possess me always, I know it.
That is the meaning of this happy hour:
Color and I are one.
I am a painter.
— Paul Klee
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Shapes In Search Of Their Void — Abstract art by kenne
“The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”
– Paul Klee
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Thimble Peak — Computer Painting by kenne
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
— Paul Klee
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Again, I Turn To Paul Klee 8 comments
is life without making full use of what we already have, because life is given only once?
When I turn to my already gathered knowledge and experience, especially in times of unspeakable destruction that impales our future, I frequently turn to one of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Paul Klee. The title of this blog, “Becoming is Superior to Being,” is a Klee quote.
Among Klee’s paintings are a series of angels. Like in one of his most famous, “Angelus Novus,” Klee’s angels are very fragmented creatures, appearing very elusive. Angelus Novus so took Walter Benjamin that he bought the painting. In his interpretation of the painting, Benjamin seems to see in the angel the despair many of us feel in our not being able to help the victims of yet another unjust war. Benjamin wrote:
“A Klee painting named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling up ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which its back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”
“Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible.”
—Paul Klee
“Listen to what you see
You are blind to what you hear
Listen to what you see
Do not fear the truth beneath
Reach for roots beneath the trees
Listen to the words you seek
Don’t listen to a word they say
Do NOT listen to a word you’ve heard
Do not listen to a word you’ve heard
People are people we live for our own
Live how you think not by what you’ve been told. . .”
You are blind to what you hear
Listen to what you see
Do not fear the truth beneath
Reach for roots beneath the trees
Listen to the words you seek
Don’t listen to a word they say
Do NOT listen to a word you’ve heard
Do not listen to a word you’ve heard
People are people we live for our own
Live how you think not by what you’ve been told. . .”
Justin Nozuka – Don’t Listen to a Word You’ve Heard
— kenne
Little Dune Picture by Paul Klee — The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
“In immanence, I am ungraspable.”
— Paul Klee
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Wisdom of Art III” Computer art by kenne
“The main thing now is not to paint precociously but to be,
or at least become, an individual.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression,
whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.“
— Paul Klee
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There’s A Poster On The Wall 2 comments
“Becoming is Superior to Being” — Paul Klee (An early 1970’s gift from Larry J. Bailey)
There’s a poster on the wall,
been there for many years.
A gift from a mentor and friend
that expressed better than I
who I was and who I was to become.
Five words of existential thought
always there providing direction
and guidance to envision the
future by not relinquishing the
task to a professional elite.
— kenne
