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...limitations inherent in categories of genre from the art world" and "to continually create a place of expression." The Seibu museum and its offshoots in Nagano and Funabashi have mounted shows on subjects as diverse as Marcel Duchamp and Edvard Munch, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Jasper Johns, Paul Klee and Egon Schiele. Today Seibu is the most influential source of direct contact with Western art in Japan, quite apart from the immense influence it has on popular attitudes toward design...
...hilltop aerie he owns in Connecticut. He takes a robust pleasure in spending his "low six figure" income: "It's my only frivolous side. I buy a picture and then say, 'Sorry, Con Ed.' If I had money I would fill my walls with Ernst, Klee and Kandinsky...
...purported Nazi sympathies-was for a time the Winifred Wagner of the New York art world. The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, complete with piped-in organ music, was devoted to the baroness's idea that Kandinsky was the messiah, sent to save all culture, with Paul Klee as his attendant apostle...
...every cleft, and any scratch or spiral meant something. But Penck's images are mere quotation suffused with graphic charm; they are little more than the husks of myth, the ornamental posing as the archetypal. Of course, one could say much the same about some of Paul Klee's output-to name but one of the modern primitivizers to whom Penck is now compared-but there is a portentousness in Penck's graffiti that rarely surfaced in Klee...
Prepared by your ad hoc lectures at the Grossenvahn, you can begin to explore treasures such as the Kunstmuseum, with its Blaue Reiter collection. After several days immersed in the corners, splotches, and brushstrokes of Klee, Kandinsky,Jawlensky, Kirchner, Macke, and Dali, venture upstairs to explore the world of Munich's artists...