Shape-shifting
A big show of strange and enchanting work at London’s Tate Modern
PAUL KLEE liked to work on several paintings at once. He would spend hours wandering between the easels in his studio, adding paint here, dabbing watercolour there, coaxing new worlds from flat canvasses. He moved easily, but mostly he smoked and waited, confident that his creations would ripen with a bit of time.
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