My friends are permanently laughing about my admiration for Paul Klee's works. They presume too quickly it's like a childish painting.

Yet, this is one of the most complexe works, one of the most dangerous for the implacable human reason, the artistic genious of mankind has created, since the black and ochre croup of an auroch in Lascaux.

"Nobody here can really understand me. Because I live also with the deads and the ones who are not borned, more nearby from the creation it's usual, but not enough yet, it is far from being."
(Notes, 1916)

Paul Klee's painting has no equivalent, because it is a quest of truth, at the beginning and from the beginning. Not only artistic truth, but Human's, which Klee grasps in the complexity of the reality, his eyes perceive differently. Julio Cortázar will have the same approach in literature.

Paul Klee's works has no equivalent because poet, musician and philosopher, his painting is poem, music and philosophical thought. More than a formal research, Klee's works is a pure reflection about the sensible world, a voluntary and successful integration of whole human perceptions.

When I look at Klee's painting, I ear it before I perceive graphics subtilities. Its musicality splashes myself as much as its luminosity, as much as the fragility of its lines, drawned from the nothingness to nowhere. Here, all is movement, in a subtle organization of time and space, according to an invisible pattern, intelligible only if we want to see.

Our sight on Klee's work must be an active one. On a way from sensations to sentations this appeals more than our simple sight :

" Only the way is productive and essential. To become is over to be.", wrote Klee in his diary. Sentence which is similar to René Char's "To be from the leap. To be not at feast, its denouement."

In the 9000 works Klee lets to us, diversity of technics and supports are the indication of this perpetual search. He is not Yves Tanguy, who paints all his life the "same". Each time, he calls into question his perception of reality and the ways to integrate it in his world vision, sometimes real hallucination.

Appearance can be deceptive. This is not children games but world complexity translation. Sartre wrote that "Klee is an angel who re-create world marvels." I visualize him like an inflexible and painful man, tireless walker on the dusty paths of Humanity, with no way out.

As René Char wrote in Search of base and summit :

"(...)You stop talk and you sign at the bottom of the page where Paul Klee, deciding you are not existing, reveals your direction".

Others pages in english : A personal tribute to René Char and Tex Avery at MGM (1942-1955). Thank you to visit them.