Paul Klee

This painting called 'The Goldfish' is by Paul Klee( pronounced Klay). Paul Klee is a famous painter who was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1879. Paul Klee loved to use many different colors for his paintings. He was inspired by lots of his collage mates. They loved to use many different colors that you would not normally use for what they were painting. They would use green to paint a cow or purple to paint milk. This had a great impact on Paul Klee's art work. One thing that lots of people don't know about Paul Klee is that he was also a very talented musician. He had a choice either pursue music or art and he chose to stick with art. Even thou many of his painting were very colorful it was noticed that as Paul Klee aged his paintings became more gloomy and dark as said in the biography 'Paul Klee' by Mike Veneza.

The painting 'The Goldfish' is very unique. It’s actually not even painted. It was created with oil and water on cardboard! This piece of art work has many different shapes. The plants on the sea floor are made up of lots of lines and they are all blue. Another thing that I've noticed about this is that in a way it looks like something a little kid would draw. It’s all so simple. The fish are pretty much just ovals with fins and eyes. The water is also just squiggly lines, but what impressed me the most about this picture is how the colors pop out so much. The colors seem to be glowing especially since the back ground is a dark color. I also like how the gold fish in the middle has very unique fins. its like spikes are poking out from its back. The fish is also a mix of gold and red. I like the specification of where the colors are placed. It seems that only the eyes, Fins and tail are red while the rest remains gold.

I think this is one of those pieces of art that doesn't necessarily have a deeper meaning. I feel like this painting is just majestic. It was just meant to be made to wow people who see it. But it seems that the more I look at this piece the more I see what the scene is. It looks like all the fish around the corners are swimming away from the big gold fish. You can see the ripples as well. It’s like the gold fish is superior and the smaller fish are afraid of it. I also think the goldfish in the middle is glowing with some sort of light or power inside of it but yet it still doesn’t light up the water.

Overall I really liked this painting. It’s really majestic and looks ancient. I feel like Paul Klee is a very unique artist with a different style then most other artists.