Word: klee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to flesh out the graphics exhibit, the Busch has pulled a few favorite Bauhaus works from its own collection. Klee and Feininger paintings, 1920-23, and Bauhaus crafts. The crafts, like the graphics, are a wide-spread sampling alongside yet another influence of the Bauhaus, art nouveau crafts. The resulting conglomeration is fascinating but confusing...
...prints. The Raltimore Museum put together an exhibit of her graphic work several years ago that I kick myself for missing, but through December 31, the Alpha Gallery at 121 Newbury St. is presting a selection of her prints, along with those by Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Klee. If anyone can't figure out what to give me for Christmas...
...down by Hitler in 1933, now seems almost as remote as William Morris' workshop or Verrocchio's studio. It has become part of the "golden legend" of modernism. Except for Josef Albers and Marcel Breuer, the chief Bauhaus teachers of art, design and architecture are dead: Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe. Even the ideal that hovered above Bauhaus practice -that social conduct could be purified and made better by all-embracing design systems-now seems to have been a heroic illusion, an ignis fatuus of avant-garde thought: no one really becomes less wicked...
...Tended," because some of the artists also had a pronounced mystical streak -Franz Marc, for instance, and others in the "Blue Rider" group that formed around Kandinsky in Munich just before World War I-while others, like Paul Klee, were pure fantasists...
...their skins, all of whose exposed heartbeats together would drown out the united voices of the machines." The pictorial result was a labored and rather masochistic fortissimo, executed in the belief that feeling was all: jagged lines, dissonant and fulgid colors, heavy gloom. The level of sophistication, except in Klee, Feininger, Schiele and occasionally Beckmann, was close to zero. Expressionism was a young man's movement, the creation (like Dadaism) of people in their...