SFX: Music begins and fades underneath. Select something playful/fanciful from Bach, Mozart, Ravel, Franck, Stravinsky, Shoenberg or Hindemith, Klee’s favorites. 

NARRATOR:  

Childlike. Fanciful. Playful. These are a few of the words people use to talk about the art of Paul Klee. Look around, and you’ll see that they fit. Funny faces, wobbly villages, imaginary animals, dreamy flowers. Strange shapes that don’t easily resolve into anything recognizable. Klee loved the art of children, and he pushed himself to paint and draw like they do, unhindered by the advanced knowledge of art that he certainly had. 

SFX: Music comes up again. 

NARRATOR:  

Klee was also a musician. He played the violin… 

SFX: Solo violin comes up – something like Bach 

NARRATOR: 

…and his wife played the piano.  

SFX: Piano joins the violin – music shifts to something like Ravel 

NARRATOR: Their friends came by and joined.  

SFX: Violin, piano and other instruments – music shifts to atonal modern like Schoenberg 

NARRATOR: Some might say he used colors and shapes like musical notes. And like music, his art can feel raw, intuitive. Able to move you to a different realm.