Paul Klee The Twittering Machine

The Twittering Machine was one of Paul Klee’s artworks. This painting has a multiplicity of meanings. Like his other works he blends in biology and machinery. His design, pattern, color and miniature sign system reflect art onto that which is a philosophical principle. He broke traditional or academic rules of oils on canvas.

The Twittering Machine is an Oil, Drawing, watercolor and ink on paper. Its dimensions are 25 ¼ x 19”. It was created in 1922, by Paul Klee. It is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He created the twittering machine when he was teaching at the Avant-garde Bauhaus School of modernist art and architecture.

The word “twittering” refers to the birds in the painting and the word “machine” refers to the hand crank. These two elements are fusing

He was born to a German father who taught at Berne-Hofwil college and his Swiss mother who is a trained singer. Throughout his academic training he focused mostly on his drawing skills. For two years he studied in a private studio. Then, he joined German symbolist Franz von Stuck in the 1900. He was a painter, printmaker and draughtsman of German nationality. He was associated with the German Expressionist group called the Der Blaue Reiter. He taught at the Bauhaus School. His paintings served as inspiration at the New York School. For most of his life he was a musician practicing the violin as a warm up for painting. In Klee’s lectures he compares visual rhythm of drawings to the structural and percussive rhythm of musical compositions by Johann Sabastian Bach. He admired the arts of children. He constantly experimented with artistic techniques and expressive power of color. He met his wife Lilly Stumpf in Munich who was a pianist. She supported Klee’s early years as an artist even after the birth of their son. In 1914 his trip to Tunisia changed his relationship with