The creative thinking of Paul Klee

art and music in the formation of the Theory of Form

Authors

  • Rosana Costa Ramalho de Castro Federal Fluminense University (UFF) (Brazil)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2010.45292

Keywords:

Paul Klee, Art and music, Theory of Form, Image analysis, Visual methodology

Abstract

Study on the Theory of Form conceived in the early twentieth century by artist Paul Klee and published in the book The Creative Thinking (KLEE, 1920). The Theory of Form of Paul Klee is a demonstration of an artistic thought that adopts the previously established formal prerequisites that result in the practice of artistic representation. Klee identified the formal relationship between music and the visual arts, providing connections between the melodic line and the line in the drawing, rhythm and sequence of modules and sub-modules, the pulses of the measures and the divisions of the painting, metrics in music and the modulation of shape and color in the visual arts.

Author Biography

  • Rosana Costa Ramalho de Castro, Federal Fluminense University (UFF) (Brazil)

    Post-doctoral candidate in the post-graduate program in Literature at UFF, she holds a doctorate in History from UFF (2004) and a master's degree in Visual Arts from UFRJ (1995). She has been a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 1981 and currently holds the position of Adjunct Professor. She is an accredited professor of the Graduate Program in Art Science - UFF and of the Graduate Program in Visual Arts - UFRJ. She is a member of the elaboration committee of the Graduate Program in Design - UFRJ. She is dedicated to research on: applied semiotics; cultural representations; design for sustainability, visual communication, working mainly in the areas of cultural and image sociology sociology and image, cultural and visual semiotics, design and visual communication, and design semiotics. She is a member of the Latin American Studies Association - Pitt/edu.

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2010-01-10

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No. 21 (2010): General Topics

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“The Creative Thinking of Paul Klee: Art and Music in the Formation of the Theory of Form”. 2010. Per Musi, no. 21 (January): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2010.45292.