Art Appreciation: "Sinbad the Sailor" by Paul Klee

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We're going to look at a different painting this time. It still has a figure in it but that's about the only thing that keeps it in the same category, as The Last Super. This is 'Sinbad the Sailor', by Paul Klee, he is a early twentieth century artist. I think you can see immediately that there's a certain child likeness, to the rendering that is characteristic of him. Again, it has a title "Sinbad the Sailor" so it gives us a place to hang our hat. It tells us where to start. Of course you need to have some remembrance of Sinbad the Sailor and he's actually is the character that shows up in the Arabian One Thousand and One Knights. Sinbad is a poor person sitting around in, I believe, Baghdad. Who is kind of bored of his life, he's bored of tending to the goats and so on. Somebody comes along and says that he'll send him on a voyage, a sea voyage. Sinbad actually ends up going on seven sea voyages and everything that you can imagine happens. He gets lost on a deserted Island and one of them, in another one, he's attacked by the Natives and in a third one he's got problems with the Sea Monsters. This one looks like it's probably the one where he's contending with the Sea Monsters. So, that's the story, that's what is pegging this picture, is that we have an adventurer, Sinbad, who is a sailor, so that means we're talking about ocean and he's contending with the perils that come with ocean voyages.

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