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...when the late Paul Klee was 23 and a promising Swiss painter, he decided to start all over again. "I want to be as though newborn," he wrote in his journal, "knowing nothing about Europe...." Part of his new birth was to unlearn all the techniques he had acquired for making "acceptable" pictures...
...three, the canvases of Swiss-born Paul Klee (1879-1940) were the most recognizable. Concealed in his childlike scrawling was many a suggestion of reality (shadowy trees, clouds, heads); much of his work possessed simplicity, sharpness and humor, and a spontaneity as fresh as a candid camera shot...
...Klee, Kandinsky and Mondrian stand in somewhat the same relation to art as Gertrude Stein does to literature. Just as the unfettered Stein prose confused many a layman but benefited such popular writers as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, so the abstractionists have had a major impact on U.S. typography, advertising layout, architecture (see cut). By now, the layman, whether he knows it or not, owes a good-sized debt to the nonobjective painters...
From the many collections throughout the University, a representative display has been chosen, which will include works of Beldung, Corot, Klee, Matisse, Picasso, Raimondi, Rodin, and Roualt. The show will formally open tomorrow with a reception to be held in the Naumberg Room of the Museum...
Beyond the painting library, gallery-goers enter a kind of artistic Coney Island. Here are shadow boxes, peepholes, in one of which, by raising a handle, is revealed a brilliantly lighted canvas by Swiss Painter Paul Klee. Another peep show, manipulated by turning a huge ship's wheel, shows a rotating exhibit of reproductions of all the works, including a miniature toilet for MEN, by screwball Surrealist Marcel Duchamp...