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...monkish illuminator on the brain's vellum, a contemplative who shunned the world of action and became one of the very few 20th century painters who could work small without implying some degree of frustration. Paul Klee's natural space was a scrap of paper ten inches wide, and all its perspectives faced inward. "I have never," said his friend Jankel Adler, "seen a man who had such creative quiet. His face was that of a man who knows about day and night, sky and sea and air. I have often seen Klee's window from...
Tidy Man. There are no novels about Klee, as there are about Gauguin, Modigliani and Picasso. For nothing ever happened to him. Even when the Nazis in 1933 began their suppression of cultural freedom in Germany, where Klee had been teaching for twelve years, he quietly moved back to Switzerland for refuge without fuss or rancor. Politics did not interest him, and his life-style scarcely changed. With his tabby cats, his violin, and his watercolors hung out to dry like dish towels on a clothesline in his studio, Klee had always seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde...
...exaggeration, but not much of one, to say that Klee's development was a long struggle to transcend his innate tepidity. But the transcendence became real, and through it Klee reached a pitch of self-awareness such as few modern artists have achieved. "What my art probably lacks," he wrote, "is a kind of passionate humanity. I don't love animals and every sort of creature with an earthly warmth. I don't descend to them or raise them to myself. Do I radiate warmth? Coolness? There is no talk of such things when you have...
...David Stein, 35, is a highly skilled British forger of post-impressionist paintings. After a London gallery exhibited his fakes-billing the show as "Master Forger David Stein Presents Braque, Klee, Miró, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso"-a Manhattan gallery eagerly tried to follow suit. New York State's attorney general took the gallery to court, contending that the paintings would be a public nuisance. But New York Supreme Court Justice Arnold Fein sided with Stein and the gallery. Since Stein signed his name to the paintings and gave fair notice that the works were "in the style...
...gathering works of the highest quality from civilizations separated by centuries and continents the Museum destroys the sense of chronological time. They seem to have been created outside of any time sequence, created by single minds confronted with a mass of material. Each piece, whether it be by Paul Klee or by an artist from the Roman Empire, when mixed with this group abandons its specific place and date in history. Exhibited together as examples of the world's art all artists are placed on the same footing. Though few of the artists speak the same language, or comprehend each...