Born into a family of musicians and trained in the violin, Paul Klee initially considered pursuing music before turning to the visual arts. His artwork, like that of his friends and fellow Bauhaus teacher, Vasily Kandinsky, is permeated with musical themes and symbols. In a number of his works, Klee employed color rectangles as building blocks comparable to individual musical notes, which he carefully arranged in a grid pattern to produce an overall theme or melody. Klee’s titles often make explicit his belief in the essential relationship between the two art forms, as in
New Harmony (1936), the inspiration for this tie.
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