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Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee-they are blue.* Last week, they exhibited in the Daniel Gallery, Manhattan. Thither went some who were informed, some who were curious. "Why," asked the latter, "are they blue? Why do they call their pictures, Dynamism, Abstraction, Mystic, Musical, Choral, Life, Silence?" "To have names," wearily, kindly, replied the informed...
Scarcely satisfied, the curious turned to see what answer the fingers of Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee had written on the walls. They saw a picture which, so it seemed to them, could be nothing but a pathologist's graph of a difficult neurosis (The Ray-Kandinsky) ; a lithograph of the wedding of debauched parallels (The Cloud- Feininger) ; a diagram of the unfortunate encounter of a cloud of locusts and a windmill (Abstraction-Jawlensky) ; the furious attempt of a carburetor to become a French horn (Mathematic Vision-Klee). Some of the curious, appalled, then took themselves off, hand to head...