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What genuinely excited him was the roaring palette of the Post-Impressionists, the way that Gauguin or Van Gogh pumped color to convey feeling, without regard to whether a green face had ever been green in reality. This turned the key in Chagall's mind. Whole floods of vermillion and cobalt and purple came forward. It was this discovery he had in mind when he wrote, "I brought my objects with me from Russia. Paris shed its light on them...
...drawings, including some of the most dramatic and luminous works of his career. Paul Klee, Fulfillment in the Late Work, at Basel's Beyeler Foundation (through Nov. 9, then moving to Hanover) documents those last four years. This superb exhibit sums up the artist's lifelong research into line, color and form, and displays his often mystic face-off with fear, death and the unknown. Even the exhibit's 121 paintings and drawings - assembled from museums and private collections in Europe and the U.S. - represent only a minuscule portion of Klee's prodigious output in his final years. His meticulous...
...most committed creator of comix as art. For one thing, he demands high production values for his books. The "Quimby" book must be the most gorgeous graphic novel ever published. It has gold ink embossed in the hardcover, with thick paper and an exquisite mix of color and black and white strips. The "Date Book" likewise has come out as a hardcover with top-notch production, including a placeholder ribbon. A tantalizing sketchbook page from 1995 contains a quote attributed to Goethe, "Architecture is frozen music." Ware adds an addendum, writing, "This is, I think, the aesthetic...
Where "Quimby" offers a focused examination of some of life's mysteries, the "Acme Novelty Date Book," offers a cloudy, opaque window into the author's personal sensibilities. Sex, self-loathing, loneliness and a sentimental yearning for the past the past fills the pages, often in full color. Preliminary layouts for later polished pieces show up, as do near-perfectly formed strips that have never been seen before. Any artist or Ware aficionado will find it extremely interesting, though the uninitiated may be somewhat baffled by it. Frankly, this criticism extends to Ware's finished work as well, including "Quimby...
...Price tag for a new luxury public toilet facility, complete with color TV, that opened on Tiananmen Square...