Word: klees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Klee is there, of course, as sensitive and witty as ever, and Juan Gris, as richly controlled as always. Chagall is represented at his most fanciful and most substantial, Braque displays his talent for being perennially so very right, and Rouault, as usual, exhibits as much profundity in a landscape as in a crucifixion. It is good to see less exhibited figures such as Villon and Masson included, though Miro, Leger, Mondrian and the sculptor Lipschitz receive perhaps less than their...
...Reiter (Blue Rider) group centered at Munich, which strove for what Franz Marc called "sensing the underlying mystical design of the visible world." But what looked like a new dawn for European art quickly clouded with the rumors of war. Wassily Kandinsky began introducing cannons into his abstractions. Paul Klee's expressions of his subconscious began to reflect fear. Klee's Blue Rider painting companion, bean-pole-tall August Macke, painted his somber Farewell, a square filled with blank-faced men, women and children, before marching off to the front, where he was killed immediately. Marc completed...
...bursting point, but recovered much of Germany's lost humanism. The most intense group of artists was at the Bauhaus, where the new center of architecture, with its goal of "art and technology -a new synthesis," attracted U.S. Painter Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer and Klee. There Kandinsky combined abstract geometric forms with color in Composition VIII to arrive at a new and colder art that he hoped would have the quality of "burning power in an icy chalice." The closing of the Bauhaus in May 1933 signaled the beginning of a second long night over Germany...
...Fritz Winter, 51, who started as a coal miner, attended the Bauhaus where he was Kandinsky's assistant, served on the Russian front and spent years in a Russian P.W. camp. His expressive Dead Forest (opposite) re-creates the world in terms of imagined structure, much as Klee did with fantasy. It is harsh and foreboding. After Germany's tortured half-century it would be misreading human nature to expect it to be otherwise...
...much more "right" in every respect is the staccato rhythm of Klee's ironically entitled Anchored, or the intensely Spanish tautness of Gris' Self Portrait...