Word: klee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come. It also reflects their recovery of a number of Webern manuscripts-characteristically neat, finely etched documents in which individual notes range over the staves with a kind of surreal wit, as in some calligraphic drawing by Paul Klee...
...Noland," writes Curator Diane Waldman in her catalogue essay, "ranks with Delacroix and the impressionists among the great color painters of the modern era. Unquestionably heir to Matisse and Klee in the realm of color expression, he is to his generation what they were to their own." This litany might have read better ten years ago than it does today; it is incantatory rubbish. Delacroix was not a "color painter" in any sense of the word that can be applied to Noland. He was a superb colorist whose art was occupied with matters other than the disinterested play of color...
Married. Anne Baxter, 53, film actress (All About Eve, The Razor's Edge) who quit the screen to live on an isolated cattle station in the Australian outback with her second husband, Randolph Gait, and wrote about it in Intermission; and Wall Street Investment Banker David Klee, 69; she for the third time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan...
...texture and potential color (take a look at "Moonlight") taught pattern and mood to his followers, the exhibit includes the expressionists--works like Erich Keckel's "Two Men at Table" inscribed somberly and portentously "To Dostoevsky" --and winds up through the Bauhaus. The four Bauhaus portfolois (1921-1923) get Klee, and Feininger...
Died. Josef Albers, 88, abstract painter and influential art teacher at Black Mountain College and Yale; of heart disease; in New Haven, Conn. The German-born son of a house painter, Albers studied and taught-along with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky-at Weimar's Bauhaus, the renowned laboratory-workshop of craft and design. When Hitler closed the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers came to the U.S., where he meticulously painted geometric patterns, notably squares within squares, and taught his students to see the ways colors interact. "His criticism was so devastating that I wouldn...