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Art: Paul Klee: Making Visible

Making Visible is hardly the definitive retrospective of Paul Klee, the Swiss artist, born in 1879. The exhibition includes drawings, etchings and paintings Klee produced from 1912 until his death in 1940, but not his early work, leaving the impression that Klee arrived, fully formed as an artist, at the age of 32.

Klee showed an early aptitude for the violin, but took up art in his teens as an act of rebellion. Thereafter he pursued his interest with an obsessive zeal. As Making Visible reveals, he made his breakthrough as an abstract artist, particularly with the explorations of colour he produced after a revelatory trip to Tunisia in 1914.