Paul Klee vs. Gustav Klimt

eff, misspelled Klee in the poll title. can a mod help?

Klimt

both great, but klimt

Interesting. I had to force myself to appreciate Klimt. But the subtle poetry of Klee’s works was always appealing to me.

Klee, no contest for me. But sometimes I see the odd bit of atypical Klimt that is surprisingly nice, but generally can't stand most of his work - it's pure high society goth shit imo!

He lived a kind of austere life though. The glitz of his work didn’t reflect an affection for material comfort/luxury. Interestingly, Michelangelo was the same way—the most bombastic of the High Renaissance masters in his work, yet led the simplest lifestyle of them all.

Austere in terms of wearing simple clothes and sleeping on the floor and stuff—Klimt fathered like 20 kids or something and was no ascetic.

easily klee

time to run
chemicals

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wasn't Egon Schiele one of his students/acolytes?

They were in the same circle and influenced one another, even though schiele was a generation younger. I don’t know if they had a formal student/pupil relationship ever.

i have a book of klimt's pencil sketches, i think i might prefer those to his paintings

now i'm second-guessing myself and wondering if i should've gone for klee, whose work is wonderfully universal and so much fun to look at

I like Klee much more but Klimt is fine, in certain kinds of mood.

Love both, not sure whether to go with klee for everyone's favourite Benjamin passage or klimt for my favourite painting that I bought in the form of a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle that I intended to put together and then hang on my wall, less one single piece, but I never did because jigsaw puzzles are hard and boring

i tend to like Klee's colors a bit more, but both classic, it's hard to choose

I have seen some of Klimt's nature studies that are much more pleasing than the gaudy society portraits. I know I'm being quite reductive about his main work, but it really gives me a headache. Klee is one of the 20th century's greatest artists for me. When I was a textile design student in what feels like a previous lifetime now, I completely fell in love with his work.

Klimt's nature studies

his beech and birch forests are some of my faves

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-8skklvbk/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/2407/22841/Beech_Grove_I_Gustav_Klimt___66728.1501256870.jpg?c=2&imbypass=on

this is beautiful tbf.

haha, i love the little drop-shadow on that. we've got klimt hanging on the walls of ILX!

Lol

one of my favorites by Klee:

https://i.imgur.com/TUgFePD.jpg

klee is all-time for me

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https://www.swissinfo.ch/image/38334922/2x3/682/1024/e565247c391209b79bd7b14338381415/QJ/ma_tempelhalle_91268-38334924.jpg

Klee's exquisite colour sense and visual musical/poetry or whatever want to call it was there from the early days!

Wait shit I voted Klimt accidentally.

i barely know anything about either artist but to throw out a basic b take i feel like klee created a new visual world and klimt beautified the world we already live in.

this one is so delightful and mysterious, and seasonally appropriate

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/7f/bf/1b7fbf555197f8affe4567c81b7ce4a8.jpg

"carnival in the snow"

there were some artists heavily influenced by Klee in the art brut fashion like Dubuffet, who I quite liked at one time, but they lacked his charm or something.

a very nice klee thread

Paul Klee, A Plant and its Enemy, 1926 pic.twitter.com/fiUSOXPD2C

— Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) December 18, 2018

would love to think that ace pic of him sitting having afternoon tea with Kandinsky in front of a bauhaus type house would be enough to induce a fatal heart attack in Sir Roger Scrotum!

lol

just realized last week there's a framed print of The Kiss in the hallway leading to my bedroom. it's been there for 3 years and I just noticed it was THAT painting. Damn

they’re both incredible but i love klee so goddamn much

Love the unfinished Klimt used here:
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/5/58/HRSMKRSPFR1991.jpg

i used to find Klimt overly gaudy and was against his work

against?

My favorite Klee is the Google Doodle he did today.

https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/img/XMuUedO6b5GaclF7d9p1GXOfueQ=/970x0/2018/12/18/b1252ccd-d629-46af-85f4-b8e51fcf67fd/klee-doodle.jpg

i used to find Klimt overly gaudy and was against his work

against?

― the late great, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 10:57 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i was repulsed by images like "woman in gold." it seemed to reflect an aesthetic sensibility that was absolutely alien to me. i was suspicious of him and this feeling has been hard to fully shake off.

klee on the other hand i always loved. there was always something really warm and personal about his work. it seemed to get at a certain essence of modernism--the joy in experimentation

Voted Klee... There a natural mesmerism to them that I've always responded to.

Not into Klimt much, but everyone owes it to themselves to see at least one in person.

It's kind of amazing to realize how much of the design aesthetic of the '50s and '60s comes from Paul Klee--from a thousand jazz album covers to the graphic works of Charles & Ray Eames (below) to the curtains my mom bought in 1960.

The Solar Do-Nothing Machine

http://www.eamesoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/12356539-635x500.jpg

See it in action: https://youtu.be/kv6YvKPXQzk

(Throw in a dash of Joan Miro to that '50s design stew.)

Klee by a mile, not even close.

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klee by 560 meters

I’m expecting klee but who knows! Manet pulled off a surprise landslide.

I went to an exhibition of Klees from the Met today. So much amazing stuff.

"Clarification" probably doesn't come out well in reproduction, but it was incredibly beautiful in full size.

https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/483174/1005003/restricted

I love the softness of his line compared to the hard edges both of other modernist movements — like cubism — and much of the design of his colleagues at the bauhaus. It’s a more personal kind of modernism.

Not that i don’t like that other stuff too

"Theatre-Mountain-Construction" had me tripping out a little bit too.

https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/484873/1005332/restricted

Yeah that is magnificent

Klee

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klimt’s not bad though

important update: a nice big print of Klimt's Forest of Beeches is hanging up in my workplace! nice to see a familiar beech when i walk in

Love Klimt, nae fucker could paint a beech like him.

Also love this Klee: 'The Aged Phoenix:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwa7rUAWkAAW4jR.jpg

^ I love that.

important update #2: there is now a Paul Klee poster hanging in front of my desk. That means that I am literally sitting between two Klimt and Klee posters. ILX: the thread: the life: the experience

the klee poster features his book cover for Kleine Welt:

https://i.imgur.com/Ym4qie3.jpg

That's awesome. I want to get a print of "Strange Garden" (1923), another that I saw at the exhibit last week:

https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/483586/1006553/restricted

Mushrooms, hour 3

you know, re: the overexposed klimt society portraits that everyone is tired of, if you ignore the faces and other anthromorphic bits and just focus on like the clothes and the background textures there are a lot of similarities to klee!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Gustav_Klimt_046.jpg

like enlarge that picture so you can only see the lower half of it and it doesn't look so different from klee!

oh I think some of his nature studies show he was more than just a stylist and even his more decorative/embellished stuff is actually quite loose and not as intensively overworked as it maybe looks at postcard scale.