In Germany just before the outbreak of World War I, a promising young Swiss-born artist named Paul Klee threw over all the drawing lessons he had learned at Munich's famed Akademie and took to making little childlike scrawls. Artist Klee was trying to capture on canvas the fleeting impressions of his own subconscious mind. To him and a few devoted admirers the childish, loony world of the subconscious was more interesting than the harsh, war-bound world outside.
Paul Klee's artistic babbling and cooing was not unique. All over Europe artists had suddenly developed a...
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