God of War
Medium
Gouache and tempera
Dimensions
sheet: 35.2 × 29 cm · secondary support: 64.6 × 49.3 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Lockwood Thompson
Accession Number
1992.278
Tags
male
About this artwork
This drawing belongs to a series of large format works with bold colors, thick painterly lines, and pictograph formations that Paul Klee created late in his career. The period during which they were made was marked by anxiety for the artist, as political turmoil grew in Europe during the 1930s. To suggest this experience, Klee painted on a sheet of newspaper, allowing the printed text to intermingle with his own sign-like marks. The article visible here, for example, discusses the Spanish civil ...