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This exhibition, as well as focusing attention on a worthy but obscure artist, also shows that the Blaue Reiter movement included more than just Klee and Kandinsky. As a woman who persisted in her original interpretation of her time, Munter increased the scope of an artistic movement which helped define modern art, and at the same time, managed to remain involved with her subject in a way that always defied classification...
...list of artists redeems the show. From Picasso to Giacommetti to Klee to Miro, the assortment is a Whitman's Sampler of the finest art of the century, worth seeing no matter how it is exhibited...
Emile Nolde's "Portrait of Mary Wigman," one of the few non-abstract works in the collection, stands out in bold simplicity to the rest of the works in the show. In an exhibit where you have to peer at Paul Klee's miniscule scribblings with your nose six inches from the paper, Nolde's portrait grabs you from the doorway...
...valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come. It also reflects their recovery of a number of Webern manuscripts-characteristically neat, finely etched documents in which individual notes range over the staves with a kind of surreal wit, as in some calligraphic drawing by Paul Klee...
...Noland," writes Curator Diane Waldman in her catalogue essay, "ranks with Delacroix and the impressionists among the great color painters of the modern era. Unquestionably heir to Matisse and Klee in the realm of color expression, he is to his generation what they were to their own." This litany might have read better ten years ago than it does today; it is incantatory rubbish. Delacroix was not a "color painter" in any sense of the word that can be applied to Noland. He was a superb colorist whose art was occupied with matters other than the disinterested play of color...