S1 Final Project
Paul Klee - Messenger of Autumn - 1922
I am going to make little planter pots and paint Paul Klee art on them. My main one is going to be a smallish pot, and I will underglaze his Messenger of Autumn painting around the outside.
Process Pictures
1879 - 1940, born in Switzerland
In 1898 he went and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he graduated in 1901. He didn't have a good understanding of color theory and used mostly black and white. Later he traveled to places like Italy and Tunisia where he developed his sense of color that is present in most of his later works. Most of his paintings are made using ideas from expressionism, cubism, futurism, surrealism, and abstraction. He also went through phases and used different styles for each one, with one series being made of sketchy figures and another one with fish as the main figures in each work.
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I really enjoy Paul Klee's art, because of its mix of cubism and impressionism along with realistic aspects. Quite a few of his pieces have detailed parts while the rest of the work is simple, or are even just blocks of color with a small part that is reminiscent of a real thing
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I chose this piece to recreate because I thought it would look good on a planter and because I really loved the color scheme of all the blues and greys and the one orange.
Construction Process
I threw this piece on the wheel with B-mix, and I was going to turn it into a mug, but I forgot to add a handle before I let it get bone dry, so I turned it into a planter by drilling three holes in the bottom. Then I used a pencil to sketch the design and painted over that with underglaze. Once it was fired, I put clear glaze on it, but the clear glaze came out of the kiln with weird bubbles and random matte parts, so I don't know what went on with that.​
Something I would have done differently is add a handle that matched the painting while the pot was still leather hard. Also, I would have wanted to figure out a way to make the pot shiny either without clear glaze or with a different kiln firing so that it didn't have the reaction it had.