Paul Klee derived his contrapuntal procedures of drawing and painting from the "theory and practice of eighteenth-century polyphony."
There is Klee's avowed preference for the music of eighteenth-century Viennese Classical composers and his application of late eighteenth-century musical terminology and techniques to pictorial art.
The relationship between what Webern and Klee created
Comparing Webern’s ideas with Klee’s doctrine of forms, very closepath of thoughts can be found. Klee understands the musical structure of the pictorial as linear active polyphony. His goal is to make visible the multidi-mensional simultaneity of the lines of visibility, drawing the drawing of lines, making visible the gerundive structure of the becoming visible. Polyphonic painting is for him “superior” because it makes visible at once, in the instant of a flash, what in music appears serially and sequentially.
Webern is also unfolding polyphony and creating another musical meaning of polyphony, by means of making audible in each sound its harmonic series, making audible in-between sounds and gerundive structure or meanwhileness of the is-sounding. Webern aims to make audible how the flash is itself a polyphony of sounds.
The difference
Klee reduces, in the phenomenological sense of this term, linearity to the drawing of the drawing of lines. Webern reduces sequential time to the in-between sounds of a series contracted in each sound. In Klee, the focus is about making visible the making visible as such. In Webern, everything is about making audible the making audible, that is, the sounds of sounding. In both, the claim for a polyphonic thought is the one for revealing the sketch-like, gerundive structure of the appearing as such, that can only appear when appearances, forms, tonalities dis-appear, becoming while in dissolution, showing the absenting way sound and colors become present as thoughts of the eyes and of the ears.
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