Word: klees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first floor after the blaze had been extinguished half an hour later. Rockefeller found only the charred remains of a distinguished art collection, estimated the loss at $350,000. All told. 70 pictures and sculptures were damaged or destroyed, including a number of Rocky-owned works by Braque. Matisse, Klee and Picasso, and seven paintings by American Masters Inness. Sully and Stuart that had been left by his predecessor, W. Averell Harriman. The 40-room brick mansion itself was so ravaged that the state was considering abandonment...
...Tanguy. who was one of Soby's closest friends, are strewn with strange shapes, which led Tanguy to call one painting The Furniture of Time. The collection has a dung-colored landscape by Jean Dubuffet ("the strongest painter in postwar France"), a couple of childlike fantasies by Paul Klee ("the vigilant ally of accidental beauty"), an unusually appealing Liberation by Ben Shahn showing three small French girls swinging wildly in the air upon the liberation of France...
...parade wearing a death's-head and carrying a poster saying "Dada, Dada, über alles." The Dadaists were only a minor influence on his art. He admired the way the Italian futurists portrayed tension and movement. He borrowed a little from the cubists and from Paul Klee, who was so intrigued by the art of children and lunatics...
...collection ranges from the Norwegian Edvard Munch to Canada's Pollock-like abstract expressionist, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Bonnard. Villon, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...
Born in Hannover in 1887, Schwitters forsook the realism of his academic art training to become associated first with the sardonic Paul Klee, then with the Dadaists and such pioneer abstract painters as Piet Mondrian. But all his life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz...