Word: klees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth (1,600,000 acres) of Guatemala's arable land and handed it over to 83,275 landless peasants. Last week the new President laid down a stopgap program of his own for dealing with the most explosive of Guatemala's problems. Drawn up by Jorge Skinner Klee, 32, a lawyer who took postgraduate work (in anthropology) at Northwestern, the President's decree appears to accept land reform in Guatemala as a necessity, and undertakes to consolidate it while redressing some of its more glaring injustices...
...Plunk and Boom, the first cartoon to be made in CinemaScope, purports to tell the history of the four main families of musical instruments (brass, woodwind, string and percussion). In style a clean steal from the Bosustow cartoons (which, in turn, borrowed tricks from such modern artists as Paul Klee), Toot takes Disney in one jump from the nursery to the intellectual cocktail party. There are moments-in the musical score especially-when the film does not seem quite sure how to behave...
...businesslike calm. Switzerland has produced a few passionate painters, and possibly two with an important place in art history. The first was the sophisticated fantasist Paul Klee, who died in 1946. His art had all the delicacy and sparkle of a Swiss watch. The second great Swiss painter may well be Max Gubler, 54, a sober, square-faced man with straggly grey hair and intense grey eyes. His art is sunny and nourishing as Swiss cheese. Last week the Zurich Art Museum was staging a retrospective show of 136 Gubler canvases dating all the way back...
...Heinz Trökes of Germany owes a great debt to Switzerland's great Paul Klee. Trokes' Between Clouds and Crystals is gay as an awning and deft as a magician's trick, though neither so gay nor so deft as Klee could...
Kandinsky and Klee did more than anyone else to invent the language of modern art. Their followers have developed an impressive number of dialects. Although it is hard to hear the voices of today's quieter artists above the abstractionists' hue & cry, it seems likely that the noise will subside in time. As Carnegie Director Washburn puts it: "The 1952 International gives the impression of looking forward into the future. But it is actually of its own time, the year...