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Movement

M O V E M E N T IS OFTEN THE CHARACTERISTIC b y w h i c h w e their lines and the power of their beasts. In Picasso's drawing,
noise is everywhere. His powdery, dissolving faun kneels
identify an animal: the fast cheetah, slow tortoise, flapping stranded, overwhelmed by a screeching bird, the whinnying
bird, or proud, quivering horse. Artists commonly focus of a frantic horse, and waves breaking distantly below.
on such actions, taking them to guide their hand in bringing
form and essence together. In these two drawings, made only Klee's riders are constructed from all the gestures of greeting
a year apart, we see semi-abstract, flattened animals composed mules. The fact that they never stand still influences the move-
almost entirely of movement. Both Picasso and Klee have ment in his line. His hand must have shuddered and twitched
enclosed their subjects to compress and amplify the speed of just like the constant actions of this humorous meeting.

PABLO PICASSO Ink and gouache This drawing is made in black Chinese ink Faune, Cheval et Oiseau
and gouache (opaque watercolor) applied with a brush. The
A prolific Spanish painter sculptor, draftsman, ink is used to make sharply defined solid, hooked, and scrolled 1936
printmaker ceramicist graphic and stage designer lines. Gouache is brushed softly in translucent hazy layers of 173/8 x 211/4 in ( 4 4 0 x 5 4 0 m m )
who lived in France. Picasso cofounded Cubism, cool blue, gray, and brown. These media complement and PABLO PICASSO
the first abstract movement of the 20th century, amplify each other with their brilliant contrast.
with George Braque (see p90).