Paul Klee: About Technical Frenzy

Paul Klee lived, as we do today, in a time of great technological transformations. The new achievements called into question people’s perception of matter, space and time. X-rays, telephones and electricity dissolved the familiar picture of the world. Artists like Paul Klee reacted to this as well. Some believed in progress and found an appropriate artistic language in constructivist creations. Others longed for an untouched primitivism. Klee did both. However, he responded to the ecstasy of technical progress with critical detachment and commented upon it in numerous works.