Word: gare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of Klee's earlier work is more representational, though highly stylized, while his later pieces are colorful non-objective works. In "Menacing Head" (1905) a man stares from the frame with an intense gare, a small weasel-like animal perched on top of his head (although the fact is similar to Klee's this work is not considered a self-portrait). This early work foreshadows his later exploration of abstract visual symbolism. As the gallery notes state, Klee uses the two components to "expose human malvolence...