Paul Klee - "Temple Gardens" - (1920) Gouache and traces of ink on paper The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Website: http://www.metmuseum.org/store/images/Z.po.B2464.R(1).jpg

This is formalism because it is unrealistic and does not focus on emotion. It uses mainly "warm" colors, but if you look closely it has many "cool" colors too. This was painted 6 years after a visit to Tunisia. He cut it into 3 pieces with scissors, and rearranged it. The shapes are mostly semicircles and squares. Shortly before it was painted, there was the Russian Revolution and the inventions of the first commercially successful automobile and plastic.