Paul Klee is a musician and artist who deals with creating suggestions of sound through his artwork. One of his more well-known pieces is "The Twittering Machine". This unusual piece seems to make the illusion of the chattering and twittering of the birds within it.The soft blue colour of the background allows us to see the more detailed design of the birds without assaulting us with a more vibrant colour, distracting us from the "Twittering Machine". The birds are not the things we see in everyday life, nor do they sing the sweet melody of an everyday bird's song. The birds created by Klee are harsher and more bizarre, singing a crisp, sharp song.
Paul Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland into a family of music on 18th December 1879. His father, Hans was a German music teacher at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar and his mother, Ida Flick had trained to be a singer. Paul seemed to be talented in both art and music, beginning the violin at 7 and begining to draw with chalk at 8. In 1898, at the age of 19, he began to study art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. After receiving his Fine Arts degree, he started to experiment with new techniques, such as drawing on black glass with a needle, which produced 57 pieces, including "Portrait of My Father" (1906). He later taught at the Bauhaus School of Art with his friend, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. Paul Klee died aged 61 on 29th June, 1940.
