{"title":"Blue Four, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe artists’ group “Die Blaue Vier” (The Blue Four) was an influential association of four outstanding Expressionist artists: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/kandinsky-wassily\" title=\"Kandinsky\"\u003eWassily Kandinsky\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/feininger-lionel?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=feininger\u0026amp;_psid=93a84fd9b\u0026amp;_ss=e\" title=\"Lyonel Feininger\"\u003eLyonel Feininger\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/klee-paul?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=paul+kle\u0026amp;_psid=7289f15e1\u0026amp;_ss=e\" title=\"Paul Klee\"\u003ePaul Klee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/jawlensky-alexej-von?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=jawle\u0026amp;_psid=12a7e7f89\u0026amp;_ss=e\" title=\"Jawlensky\"\u003eAlexej von Jawlensky\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe group was founded in Weimar in 1924. Already before the war, all artists had participated in exhibition activities of the artists’ association “Der Blaue Reiter”, which is commemorated through its name. The idea for the formation came from Galka Scheyer, a New York-based art dealer of Russian origin. She organised several exhibitions in the USA hoping to establish the artists on the art market and to ensure that they were known in the USA. Through Scheyer’s establishment of her own exhibition house in the Hollywood Hills, the “Blue Four” had a direct influence on the Californian art scene. Their works are exhibited in renowned galleries and museums around the world and are now part of important private and institutional art collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClick on the links above to see a biography of each of the artists and their works. Works by all four artists are shown below.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"paul-klee-87-high-resolution-images","title":"Paul Klee 87 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eDiscover the legacy of Paul Klee (1879-1940), a Swiss German artist born in 1879 in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland. Explore the groundbreaking fusion of abstraction and figuration that made him one of the most important figures in 20th-century art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 87 hi-res images, in jpeg format, by the artist Paul Klee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3087 pixels wide\/tall to 7080 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Klee's\u003c\/strong\u003e early exposure to music and art, his father's profession as a music teacher, and his mother's artistic leanings profoundly influenced his creative journey. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and later joined the influential Blaue Reiter group, which focused on the emotional resonance of colours and shapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eKlee's work is characterised by his innovative use of colour and form, often inspired by his dreams, the natural world and children's art. He once famously stated that ‘\u003cstrong\u003edrawing is taking a line for a walk\u003c\/strong\u003e’, reflecting his playful approach to creating art. His style evolved over the years, integrating elements of expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, leading to a distinct visual language marked by whimsical motifs and vibrant hues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThroughout his career, Klee produced over 9,000 works, including paintings, drawings, and prints. Some of his most renowned pieces include ‘\u003cstrong\u003eSenecio\u003c\/strong\u003e’, with its bold colours and stylized features, and ‘\u003cstrong\u003eTwittering Machine\u003c\/strong\u003e’, which exemplifies his fascination with the relationship between nature and the playful aspects of human creativity. Klee's time teaching at the Bauhaus, a revolutionary school of art and design, further solidified his impact on modern art, allowing him to experiment and share his philosophies with a new generation of artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Klee family emigrated to Switzerland in late 1933. In that year, Klee began experiencing the symptoms of what was diagnosed as scleroderma after his death. The progression of this fatal disease, which made swallowing very difficult, can be followed through the art he created in his last years. His output in 1936 was only 25 pictures. In the later 1930s, his health recovered somewhat, and he was encouraged by a visit from Kandinsky and Picasso.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eKlee's simpler and larger designs enabled him to keep up his output in his final years, and in 1939 he created over 1,200 works, a career high for one year. He used heavier lines and mainly geometric forms with fewer but larger blocks of colour. His varied colour palettes, some with bright colours and others sombre, perhaps reflected his alternating moods of optimism and pessimism. Back in Germany in 1937, seventeen of Klee's pictures were included in an exhibition of ‘\u003cstrong\u003eDegenerate Art\u003c\/strong\u003e’ (a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art) and 102 of his works in public collections were seized by the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eKlee’s legacy endures in the art world, with his works influencing numerous movements and artists. 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He was successful in his profession and was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). In Moscow, he saw an exhibition of paintings by Monet. He was particularly taken with the impressionistic style of Haystacks; this, to him, had a powerful sense of colour almost independent of the objects themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1896, at the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up his promising teaching career to pursue an artistic one, settling in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. From 1906 to 1908, Kandinsky spent a great deal of time travelling across Europe (he was an associate of the Blue Rose symbolist group of Moscow) until he settled in the small Bavarian town of Murnau. In 1908, he bought a copy of Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater with illustrations by John Varley, which influenced him visually. 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