Born into a family of musicians and trained in the violin, Paul Klee initally considered pursuing music before turning to the visual arts. Hs art, like that of his friend and fellow Bauhaus teacher, Vasily Kandinsky, is permeated with musical analogies. In a number of works, Klee employed color-rectangles as building blocks comparable to individual music notes, which he carefully arranged in a grid pattern to produce an overall theme or melody. Klee's titles themselves often make explicit his belief in the essential relationship between the two artforms, as in
New Harmony,1936, reproduced here on a watch.
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