Invitation to Art; 28; Paul Klee

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ms james b supporters see results greetings to move from
essentially a movie of the inner light that they're going to enter a world of strange types relevant know existed in this and that is exported fossil record some has already been there and has the kind of focus on human toll is where does this world whether it's in a civil rights and it's a strong winds perhaps now and then the members images and cents but it's always an echo of the life of the spirit of the deepest life within us and its survival as a metaphor one because it is so frail and yet it is so powerful and its survival means that it
touches something deep within its means that lays bare our vitals in some way so knowing nothing absolutely nothing about to be almost project and this is the man who swept away four hundred years of european art to begin again to lay bare the sanctions that have been lost the essentials of the image the image that comes from the imagination in all its primitive than magic force the image that was so debased after four hundred realistic years in europe that we endured a crown those years by the invention of photography now plays workers never know the obstruction along image discovers a settlement with human significance and i do know that something's got human significance well that tantalizes
if you just think what is it because it has somehow become important to know now what is this or potential we see here and what's this shift to the right of shapes and it was an eccentric air shaft in the wrong way but it's a symbol of the desperate and appoint some and let's go to the right maybe in winning a ghost of a cloying maybe beach diet that is what i don't but i do know this that as you're looking at it now it's hypnotic you can't look away from the old importance of something that's about to give the revelation that they'd never do and so they vote for in much the same way an unfinished story of a texas we want to know and this was not because of what they buy what they might be and so yes in fact really into something in our own experience but they really notice because they have a life of their own
they're independent of us and they live by some quality of life that is in them and that is the revelation of modern art but for moms like for know that explain that in a different way to try to change their world and it worked again and again it would not know the meaning out of it again what is again now teams of lost its meaning and yet something about the song again that compels this seems to be a reality and roots need to support nominee can put it in a different way not to deliver did you ever read the book and your eyes tired and as you're reading the book suddenly the page of printed out it does seem to last the meaning for us are just earthen without recognition and an episcopalian and yet a strangely familiar as what's in the middle and the
villages and become like the shapes you know the twist and come alive with vitality seems to be a life under them behind their appearance and play felt that and he did this cynical the abstract right that's jay light and their images also would strike deep into something deeper than also into the teaming image extends that lies below the softness of the mind where everything is nascent an attempt so it without that psychology pretzel of dna called play because he trails is an absolute steps and brings to light images which show light on these tips right and also lighten your subconscious you see explores the modern whales that have been revealed to sin explores other work worlds as well the world of of being a nation of reality what is perception philosophy is a philosophy an artist and lost it brings that it
was out of another thing you know his office with a rhythmic in many ways and lots of comparisons in the mid seventies but you see it as a great deal in his art more than meets the eye it is full of possibilities and it anything that happening to us we're looking at this picture now let's go back and find out what it's what it's all about faith cause of possibilities it's a possibility says that unlike play the odor is well let me represent now the prevailing winds and oppress minorities in phases of them almost four calls as the tide the table seems to your perspective it seems to have that the finality of a question of convictions slights honestly ziegler getting deeper into this world of all play and if we can get our foot on it
we'll be free and we can walk in and were going back to that the drum parts and this it certainly drawn from his is strange and tender imagination what is this anyway is it a minuscule of compassion is something i'm passionate about it it's held and there is structured like the desiccated leather something fetal and growing about this and also there's something in the fall of the directory that is a slight echo of the classic jessica lange's which is default that places like that like a beethoven scene being played in a tin whistle and talking about themes also this picture play improvise on it just like a musician but you see it's shaped like a mess and to discover that this man is making news it satisfying that inherent sense of rhythm an order that all of us unconsciously divide was growing point from which to talk about his
art for his art is deeply associated with growth and gestation and creation just as nature's associated with with growth than just fish not place of the creative forces known as important he felt that the creative forces that are at play in the world of art were the same and the same order in a way of the forces which government and in creation he felt himself as the man to be part of which they are just can't be upside nature man man is a part saw his activities must be involved in it now is identification with nature was complete so that is more pictures bring one of the groves of the conflict the very small time you know you think the jet engines of the most of this moment life in macro in microcosm a very big and the very small communities where the play of forces the morals of the universe which government because of the facts those films
circulating one of the top candidates million spree that seems occasionally summarize and they aren't all that he makes us aware of the immense of space which is one of the fundamental concepts of this of this our time more than any other for this viewpoint of his results and subjective art was that with his complete belief in the middle schools it was object and it was this complete belief and objectivity that made paul plays well cost know he's intensely post war world is one of the same time one of the most objective and yet as we said the subject and this objectivity let me give you an expression of that comes out in a newspaper john towards death and towards evil is as evil must not be a triumphant a confounding candidate but a constructive force
a co factor in creation and development i think and see that objectivity in the state was objectively subject sings full of ambiguities of the ambiguities of that position as you look at it and it extends in a way that would be meaningful to face it's just because you see the way that the spits see it isn't juxtaposed now that motif is repeated in the mosque from among others just like a visual pun and cnn as you look at it again there's a strong central line that runs through from ginger know some thought and then as you look at the sudden it becomes like a stalk which the eyes of attention like the us and in a way the face becomes a plant like a growing tissue is august the suggestions is a whistled of whispering into your years old it's full of poetic intuitions which moved in and around i feel in and around oh the city life and doesn't know where representation lot
never can pose representational artist tied to the objects apart as a partisan problem that sit with you go from a well now that we're looking at this picture and we looked at it for so long but if that's christy that's their ties to play or was he completed his pictures before giving them an edge you call this one and you see them the flour in that net extraordinary hand with the fingers like thomas witch and then they're like the two was a stall that becomes the symbol of the flower of contemplation his pictures then snatch moments of insight out of the flux of all flavors of that a thoughtful man and d and the concepts of these aig troubled great for instance the fact that nothing seems to have the energy anymore by itself but only in relation to something else so that once you put your foot on the world around shifting say the world is as we see everything to its own meaning
only in remission something else riveted so that brings us into into the distrust of the census defines so much modern ottoman so much fun and in a way to see the scientists relying on the services needed assistance investigators that innovation such as this because of perspective and as a wonderful russian perspective sen drawn there up to the right and to the end of everything seems to rush towards the vanishing point like a rift within the ice sent back from the back wall with with that one and it's on that point and then it sent fanning out again and this wonderful it's inhabited by the ghosts of furniture not by things but by the
essence an atomizer have a poem about flavor says how things have taken and shook out of their bodies on the edge of the world elements become businesses which are which share an unfinished those that darkness that is the darkness of death overtakes darkness darkness of the subconscious mind darkness of it takes darkness a stock shoots from the ethics code was base is here so you see the modern distrust of the senses summarized in many of plays let's summarize like there is one facing not just about this work as you look at it because of the dominant impression of cuba's but as always with faith is beyond use that famous for his own partisans and uses a chair to suggest the injured and the trash of salt and matt for everything is tangible and you went with the right in this picture and then you find out like this and perspective which is the big handmade a realistic art in europe for four hundred years perspective
mr hughes not to reveal an objective reality something that we see with jamaican the nets with that he had to make in an age and experience of damage space and your rifle take an unwashed and strength from states as an intimate so nice ones in a clay was very conscious of the limitations of language when dealing with concepts of space and time and movement and it's hard in many ways to talk about is how to make it meaningful he speaks of the inadequacies of language with respect to tighten concepts with that means tonight a multidimensional some of tennis events comprehended what it has achieved a visual metaphor and it's completely irrelevant lot and it couldn't have been produced in any other and by the way here's another sign of his awareness of motion the times but it's at that he tries to reconcile with the total
invention ez that era and i wrote down nobody often to find out just as we did in the first picture to have to indicate direction much less a sign we instantly comprehend the other was a sign used well by the caveman by everybody and still in our modern science and i wasted exits is one of the fundamental thing so that's the way we import about something that exists in the collective unconscious young might say it was nice to know that but the difference with the players he really discovers that from the point of view of the late senator's feel that i'm an artist featured on the scene to play around with space concerts just did a month ago it was reminds me of and as a kid in school and the organic chemistry teacher was trying to get us to understand the space we never saw nasa space within the moment which is both simple and concept and image so the world or play seems to bring us injured and seemed to bring his father in that
deeper and deeper into the circulating world of the cat in the hat and the smallest particle of matter is not still even its architects now these concepts when an artist like foreplay deals with become experience and by becoming experiences that we can't understand them still they become a part of us which we can potentially a possibly understand in some way so this man is so great and so important for you to not really is is this menace changed our lives and we must know about and plenty of jobs these experiences where he meets the mystery isn't the realities of our times know other artists that as few other artists do and to see it takes these whispers of space energy in the molecule and turns them into meaningful connections those those mysteries the job that are outrageous new names for the
mob right right right right and it's one thing to find a religious to it has got a great sense of you silly kids dance and it's wonderful it's in direct and it's a trick of putting his little jumps on a backdrop of eternities over become both oh both beautiful and loss seal the senate now here is something that is an oriental flavored an oriental spice about it it was about this it seems to take the essence of the other and to summarize it in a few inventions distinctive has ended you see the reflections of slipped a little along the water lines like between the pagoda's about that's a good job and it turns a water line to a string and they're like beads and above and below this is the sort of suspension of logic into fantasy that can occur in the master see again the world of art has its own rules and each individual has a real invention of his time
and none of them out of the senate doesn't putin's that's invention the artist's invention of creation each has an identity which is similar and at different like a line of people sitting opposite to an action on your desk and you said one of the same token sense of future this is an operation here and as times are talking about when he gets out because the spider the accumulation of the phone lines and lip synch articles at the twittering machine it's a machine has built in his imagination to reduce but saw that functions of course you know mechanical robot again to his own self supporting logic and the world of art to see art is a different world and the addition of sound as is typical of clay's belief and they since the sick possibilities of art that simply had expressed one sense in terms of the uk sounders here in terms of soft serve if you could reach into that and said don't
change there are no choo ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch and hear what the hot seat yet it's really a month and here again is the mouth expresses the art and kisses so it has an erotic relationship to the heart and to love you see little sleepless wasn't your heroes who look at his pictures listen to play is evocative pictures he's whispering to you and then just love that the few things that we can do a lot to give the ambiguity of substance and things and begins to play and then others to have not like shapes that stretch out like like a pair of tights and i'm in the middle of each theres a small engine itself poses a local producers as the ghost of a thump and he turns them into its neighbors that want a pizza place across the top in mosul playing on the idea that unlike elaborate and end with a wider and wider until we find the limits of the face which is like an academic and then something
few human activities and not the title ideal for house cats that's the punchline of wonderful images they're against the city of the tumor of play an action is trying to build some strings and strolls at work those images of summarize everything from gas to customers completely freak the components of art from the function of represent something and those lines and tone colors and almost literally thought they can be liberated to take on a life of their own as we've all been saying all through this off now and they can symbolize an image experience as cj believe that by putting himself in touch with a lot of creation which member of the rules of nature he created a framework on which australia associations and meaningful thoughts deposited themselves like crystals even as it were and he was this belief the subject of conflicts
that gave him the ability to create the most objective of while now i want you to listen to him and watch and doesn't work it takes one of the components that picture it takes nine and this convention because line and then he gives a description of this play and i'm reading from players this is his description is a great advantage he says breaking away from debts and that is our first act of motion after a while the line stops short to catch its breath none of that dance to see how far we've come see why that is tender just awesome every direction and then a river lies within our own sort of the boats the navy i think about and we cut a whole supply with you go into the special oden too dense world's leading basket makers on their way to the top
it's the funniest thing they're drawn the atmosphere herself and nightfall as a flash of lightning on the horizon for the stars don't twinkle over i was in the forties there's a little journey not happy even pace of the first strike and the obstacles and the strength of the good causes our guide even in the woods and darkness to see how these mine runs on the skin and the skull the flash of lightning he says brings to mind a fever and you see house suddenly became a strongly shoots into meaning striking into his own experiences as a sick child the sick child long ago a sick child was in fact his aunt during their donors they enter the boys fever chart in his diary every day to see how the line becomes laden with meaning in some way what is inevitable really is that too has complete faith in his autistic believes
some of that meaning carries over to what's some of the meaning those lines is and the dance of that line is drawn is walls involves us and are seeing it makes one aware of a line is really moving point i can steer it slows the polls as it reflects and headed into the void and forth just to accentuate space and thickens and here it gains strength and has attenuated distance isn't going to close this down and touching see dancers touching once again the rhythms which he felt to be inseparable from our life mature existence and remember this is the men who served told him more than anything and as we watch the point we even those deceptively simple lines it's only gradually be we become aware of the complex of ambiguity is which are a function of its move to see a place where does that catch really many strange folk is you really do
win out clay center and they have a tone color and space into similar instruments of expression and the freedom from representation which ties to die you see behind every reality he saw another b he revealed another minute so is many lessons for some form and his motive creations that it strengthen what they didn't start from the paulson has a thin scene i didn't stop from the concept which is a thing now no court date being a part of nature broke down the barriers between himself and nature and felt great universal laws and forces operate through himself and because he was a man as they pass through remember to clone human significance and human event of its human significance is so in a way explains why
his office on begins it is like a whisper into the ear and also white has cosmic and two novels and why one man said over his gray that this was the greatest pianist of modern times japan's doesn't and what reality of it now his greatest work like beethoven's was his lots and in that that is a classic cotton force and strength look at those lines as if they had been sort of oh how about a force that they vibrate they come to see him so say like like to do to the drug was just as exciting an end these forms it was like to live under a microscope they stretched beyond meaning indian vision into an experience that is just terrible and splendid as that passes of tragedy this display is for not and there's an urgency and a cowering them that awakened forces en masse and in european art before dawn one for four hundred year as many good
news he becomes a unit in a world of hostile forces not as in the renaissance the summer on which the universe is that he comes into a human you know experience which is the theme of all places and in this one might say all split atoms come together again that's necessary for us to note plan to understand his work because he performs one of the fundamental revelations that only god can do and age presents to us in all his doubts and fears and wanted an image of twentieth century mentioned that is in the end you and me it's b it's
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- Series
- Invitation to Art
- Episode Number
- 28
- Episode
- Paul Klee
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
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- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The program begins by focusing on several paintings by Klee, then turns to detailed commentary by Dr. O'Doherty on these and other works. Klee's art is strange to us - it evokes obscure symbols and puts familiar objects into strange relations. His work in much influenced by depth psychology - from which much of his symbolism derives - and seems to be constructed of forms that are always on the verge of becoming clear. His sense of humor, his rejection of traditional forms of European art, his almost arbitrary rearrangement of the world he saw are clearly explained and illustrated in this fine program. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series explores man and the world around him through the eyes of artists, past and present, and aims to develop an understanding of art as a direct expression of universal emotions. As the host, Dr. Brian O'Doherty, young Irish poet, painter, and art critic, brings a fresh, witty and warmly human point of view to the visual arts. In the first season (episodes 1 - 15), O'Doherty follows, through these arts, the cycle of man from childhood to old age and explores the society in which man lives in all its aspects - tragic, comic, and mundane. Dr. O'Doherty uses works of art now on display in the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, to illustrate the episodes. Patricia Barnard of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts supervises production. Her assistant is Thalia Kennedy of the Museum staff. In the second season (episodes 16 - 30), each episode either examines in detail the work and thought of one of the great artists of the past, or consists of skillful and sympathetic interviews by Dr. O'Doherty of distinguished living artists who have had a powerful influence upon the art of today. In the third season (episode 31 - 34), Dr. O'Doherty interviews a distinguished American artist who have had a powerful influence upon the art of today. In the fourth season (episodes 35 - 41), a pattern of ideas evolves, revealing the various roles of the artist. This series was originally record in black and white on kinescope. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1962-00-00
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:30:00
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Host: O'Doherty, Brian
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Invitation to Art; 28; Paul Klee,” 1962-00-00, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 13, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-930ns0ms9k.
- MLA: “Invitation to Art; 28; Paul Klee.” 1962-00-00. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 13, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-930ns0ms9k>.
- APA: Invitation to Art; 28; Paul Klee. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-930ns0ms9k