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...Swiss Painter Paul Klee, as unfettered as a yodeler on the Matterhorn, gave his fellow artists some advice. If a literalist should look at one of their portraits, he told them, and say, "But that isn't a bit like uncle," the disciplined artist should reply, "To hell with uncle! I must get on with my building...
Anything served Artist-Philosopher Klee for bricks. Starting around 1900 with meticulous etchings and realistic portraits, he was soon collecting ideas for paintings from needlework, mosaics, carpets, runic stones, the scrawls of children and madmen. No matter how simple the material he borrowed, his perceptive, neurotic vision transformed it into something immeasurably sophisticated. He experimented endlessly with techniques, scratched designs on blackened glass, painted on burlap, mixed his media until it was impossible to describe a painting as oil, watercolor or tempera...
Nowadays, the only paintings in Rivera's studio besides his own are out-&-out abstractions by Russian Vassily Kandinsky and Switzerland's Paul Klee. "I like them," says Rivera, "because I have an educated nose. But I don't confuse myself and my friends and the art critics with the millions. I myself have always wanted to paint for the millions-and so I stick to my idea of a clear, firm, simple and precise art that everyone can understand...
Miller's own watercolors are full of gabled doors, heavenly bodies (he believes in astrology), female sex symbols, eyes("I'm not perverse, but the idea of looking through a keyhole . . . fascinates me"), and echoes of Paul Klee and Abraham Rattner...
Peggy Guggenheim, copper-rich patroness of the arts and collector of artists, was out two dreamlike paintings, an abstract sculpture and a utilitarian gewgaw. Incredibly stolen from her art gallery: Flat Landscape and Child of the Mountain by Paul Klee, an untitled chromium relief by Hans Arp, and a fancy bottle top wrought by Author Laurence Vail, her first husband...