| dc.coverage.temporal | creation date: 1926 | en_US |
| dc.creator | Klee, Paul | en_US |
| dc.date | 1926 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-11-02T18:18:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-11-02T18:18:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1926 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 104922 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/22402 | en_US |
| dc.description | A garnished platter of fish is surrounded by a constellation of seemingly disparate elements—a cross, full and crescent moons, an exclamation point, a forked red flag—all hovering against a dark abyss. Some of Klee's iconography grew out of his teaching; the arrow, which he initially used as a teaching tool to indicate force and emotion for his students at the Bauhaus, here points confrontationally towards a stylized head, possibly alluding to human consciousness. Although they are often enigmatic, Klee believed his personal hieroglyphs and figurative elements had wider connotations: "The object grows beyond its appearance through our knowledge of its inner being, through the knowledge that the thing is more than its outward aspect suggests." | en_US |
| dc.description | full view | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 46.7 x 63.8 cm (18.39 x 25.12 inches) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | cardboard | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | oil paint | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | canvas | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | tempera | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 131035 | en_US |
| dc.rights | (c)Davis Art Images | en_US |
| dc.subject | Icons | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fishes in art | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art, Modern --20th century | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art, Swiss -- 20th century | en_US |
| dc.title | Around the Fish | en_US |
| dc.type | Image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | MOMA-P2117 | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | Repository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 271.39 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | Swiss | en_US |
| vra.technique | painting (image-making) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | Oil painting | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | painter: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940) | en_US |
