Paul Klee and the German Bauhaus

Paul Klee, the German/Swiss painter and teacher/mentor at the Bauhaus, had strong feelings and beliefs about color, form, and structural expression.  In the 1924 publication On Modern Art, Klee stated:  “Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of element, object, meaning and style…We must go on seeking it!  We have parts, but not the whole!  We still lack the ultimate power, for:  the people are not with us.  But we seek a people.  We began over there in the Bauhaus. We began there with a community to which each one of us gave what we had.  More we cannot do.”  What are your thoughts on Paul Klee and his work within the context of this lament that the people are not with the avant-garde, they are not with the experimental artists?

Alexlander Eliasberg, Photograph of Paul Klee, 1911

Paul Klee, Twittering Machine, 1922