The Journey to Italy in Paul Klee's Diary: In the Footsteps of Goethe?
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[1] Universitat de València
Universitat de València
Valencia, España
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- Localización: Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Bibliotherapy / coord. por Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Vicent Martines Peres, Veronica Orazi, 2024, ISBN 979-8-3693-8658-3, págs. 35-46
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Resumen
This chapter deals with the possible impact that reading Goethe had on Paul Klee and his trip to Italy, which marked his life and his growth as an artist. It takes into account Klee's diaries, as edited by his son Felix, and compares Goethe's vision of Neohumanism with Klee's approach to classical art and to Neohumanism itself in general, with the distances that exist between the two with respect to this movement and their similarities, particularly in the study of nature. The authors are not going to deal with Goethe's most obvious influence on Klee, which is his theory of light and colour, on which much has been written and about which the painter himself was very explicit in the pedagogical works he published for the Bauhaus.
