Word: klees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madcap Circuitry. James Seawright's spidery electronic sculptures could be Paul Klee's fidgety drawings turned into robots. New York's Modern Art and Whitney museums each snapped up one of the beasts from the tech stylist's first one-man show at the Stable Gallery. "For the artist to ignore the possibilities of technology would be utter folly," says Seawright, and he seems to have ignored few. His Watcher took 6½ months to produce; its tiny lights flicker in programmed sequences, photocell-tipped antennas bob about like tentacles, seeking the lights, and a speaker...
Fear of Another Kind. Juxtapositions of paintings also suggest hitherto unexpected correspondences. In the decade 1925 through 1934 are works by such divergent artists as that arcane, Swiss-born Bauhaus prof, Paul Klee, the Chicago anatomist of decay, Ivan Albright, the tragic expressionist Arshile Gorky, and the U.S.'s clown-painting Walt Kuhn. In paintings executed within a three-year span, each depicts man masked in dreadful isolation...
Gorky blurs bodies off from the flat, pastry-oval visages of The Artist and His Mother, a memory portrait that bridges from surrealism to the beginnings of abstract expressionism. Klee mimes a four-footed animal in his calligraphic Mask of Fear. Kuhn creates another kind of mask-that of the silent, sad clown-and makes it a vision of man turned into useless performer, while Albright excoriates the self in his wrinkly "And God Created Man in His Own Image." Unrelated by style or influence, each artist nonetheless portrays man in the early Depression years as a desperate creature searching...
After studying sociology and psychology at the University of Bucharest, Steinberg took up architecture in Milan. His eye was also nourished by Egyptian paintings, latrine drawings, primitive and insane art, Seurat, embroidery and Paul Klee. His first drawing was published in 1936 in Milan. "It took about ten minutes to draw," he remembers, "but when it was printed in the magazine, I took a very slow promenade along each line." Ever since, he has been taking millions of viewers along, mostly by means of The New Yorker, in which his drawings have appeared since...
...exhibition of over 70 prints by Paul Klee opens today at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The show, loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, will be on display through...