Paul Klee and the Object: Second Part

Abstract

THE FIRST thing that will happen when one's mind stops being focussed on material objects is that it will make objects for itself. As it empties of sensations of sight or sound or touch or taste it fills up again with images. They are images of sight and sound and of touch and taste, but they are tied by association, which is to say in time. Each one follows ana provokes the next one.The Finding Place is built up in this way. Your eye catches first the shape of a house coming out of the painted surface. Then across and after this you see another sketch, one of Klee's childlike symbols for the house facade. At first there is a look of Gris or Picasso taking objects to bits and recombining them. Only instead of a putting together in space it is a coming after in time. Instead of stylizing objects to build up an analogy of form, Klee plays variations on a form which bring object analogies tumbling after them. Here a dog-tooth shape creates a mat, wineglasses, roofs and pyramids successively. Then it is echoe...