Word: klees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1934, the Harvard University Art Museums have been collecting works by Paul Klee. The Bush-Reisinger's current exhibition offers a valuable opportunity to see this comprehensive collection, which the University only displays about every ten years...
Harvard's Klee collection--spans many years of the artist's life; the work in this show dates from 1903 to 1939. The show's breadth conveys a sense of his changing style while highlighting certain constant themes and interest...
...Some of Klee's earlier work is more representational, though highly stylized, while his later pieces are colorful non-objective works. In "Menacing Head" (1905) a man stares from the frame with an intense gare, a small weasel-like animal perched on top of his head (although the fact is similar to Klee's this work is not considered a self-portrait). This early work foreshadows his later exploration of abstract visual symbolism. As the gallery notes state, Klee uses the two components to "expose human malvolence...
Koerner recently completed a book about 19thcentury Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.He also wrote a book,Legends of theSign,about painter Paul Klee, and is currentlyworking on a book about German Renaissance...
...line," wrote Paul Klee back in the days of the Bauhaus, "likes to go for a walk." This is true of Marden's paintings, which at first sight seem to consist of nothing but line, moving across the surface in an improvised way full of checks, turnings, erasures -- a maze making itself. The nature of the line is intimately involved with the tool Marden uses, which is in effect the ailanthus twig writ large: a long-handled brush with flitchlike bristles, floppy rather than stiff, whose ramblings convey an air of reflective uncertainty. Not for Marden the forceful calligraphic rush...