Edward Hopper And Paul Klee Paintings

By Darren Hartley


The 1910s was a struggle for Edward Hopper paintings as far as recognition was concerned. It was in a variety of New York group shows that they were included, specifically the painting entitled Sailing. Immediate sales success was the result from paintings done in the medium of etching.

A symbolic milestone for commercially successful Edward Hopper paintings was their exhibition in the Whitney Studio Club in 1920. Although none of the 16 paintings was sold, it was the first one-man exhibition for Edward, who was at the time thirty-seven years of age. His patron done was in the person of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

A reversal of fortune came about a few years later when Edward held his second one-man exhibition at the Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery in New York. This time, each one of the Edward Hopper paintings presented was sold. Edward found himself in a more prosperous and prominent position as an artist after this commercial success.

During the course of his career, Paul Klee was considered to be one of the leading forces in many of the various art movements he participated in. Among other art forms, Paul Klee paintings were chiefly exhibitions of expressionism, cubism and surrealism. During the later part of his long career, Paul also worked as an art instructor, for some time.

His teen years saw Paul shifting his attention from music to the visual art forms. He mastered the art of drawing on a blackened pane of glass, using a needle, which provided magnificent depth and texture for his designed pieces. This unique art style paved the way for his first art exhibit in 1905. Featured in the exhibit where Paul Klee paintings from 1903-1905, called Inventions, in the form of a set of etchings.

The next five years saw Paul Klee paintings progressing to new art forms. Paul began to work on water colors and experimentation, in general. By 1914, Paul started work on abstract art, inspired by light exhibits he viewed in Tunisia.




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