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This painting displays intersecting lines and block shapes creating an abstract scene. Rectangular grids and curved lines evoke buildings or architectural structures, with two tall shapes on the left and right appearing like tall towers or walls with pointed roofs, and a shape in the center looking like an arch or an opening across a pathway or bridge. These shapes have been painted with black outlines, but within those outlines and overlapping with them are circles of bright green, yellow, pink, red, and dark blue, with some white between the circles. The paint has been applied thickly,…
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Baum und Architektur--Rhythmen (Tree and Architecture--Rhythms)

Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879 - 1940)

1920

Medium
oil on paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
overall: 27.9 x 38.3 cm (11 x 15 1/16 in.)
Culture
Swiss
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Gift of Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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