Word: klees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...counting systems is mildly thought provoking, it is nonetheless another disappointing exa.m.ple of the diminishing importance of aesthetic value in contemporary art. Upstairs from the works on display is the pleasant and modern Busch-Reisinger study room, containing an extensive collection of prints and drawings (everything from Kandinsky to Klee) for private viewing...
...tale to gladden the hearts of all who fossick through local art fairs looking for forgotten gems, a work that Boston businessman Edward Puhl bought more than 30 years ago turned out to be Little Regatta, by Paul Klee. The bad news was that it had been stolen. Puhl, who discovered both facts while estate planning, returned it to its owner, the Phillips Collection...
...Feininger's work and secured his place amongst the greatest artists of the 20th century, though many of his colleagues have over-shadowed him. In 1924 when Kandinsky formed Der Blaue Vier, a reference to his earlier Munich group Der Blaue Reiter, Feininger went with him along with Paul Klee and Alexei von Jawlensky (whose works are also currently on display at the Busch-Reisinger). Teaching and producing with the group brought Feininger from there to the new Dessau Bauhaus and to Berlin where Klee and Kandinsky, in particular, expounded their famous theories on color and composition...
More important, Delacroix's journey south to the Near East would become a model for avant-garde painters looking for purer and more intense experiences of light, locale and color than Northern Europe could offer. Van Gogh went south to Arles; Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and above all Henri Matisse would reach North Africa. "I have found landscapes in Morocco," Matisse claimed, "exactly as they are described in Delacroix's paintings." Morocco satisfied something in the early modernist quest for explicit, fresh, formal experience. And it was Delacroix who pointed the artists there...
...WORLD, by Barbara Braun (Abrams; $75). African sculpture and its influence on modern art is well documented. Less so is the effect of ancient American design on 19th and 20th century painters, sculptors and architects. Braun traces the aesthetic roots of artists such as sculptor Henry Moore, painter Paul Klee and architect Frank Lloyd Wright back to the Maya, Aztec and pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru...