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...Hayward Gallery in London is having a show of some 100 watercolors and drawings and a few oils by Paul Klee. It is, of course, thronged. Klee is one of the relatively few 20th century artists genuinely liked by the public for something other than gossip or ridiculously high prices. Milder than clover (which his name means in German), more timid and introspective than a vole listening to the hellish racket of the century outside its burrow, Klee (1879-1940) could never have been accused of being one of the more confrontational artists of his time...
...would think he was thoughtlessly cranking them out. All his working life he also taught students, notably at the famed Bauhaus (in Weimar, and later in Dessau), where he quietly considered some of the other teachers to be nuts, as indeed some were. Teaching was not a sideline for Klee; it was hugely important to him because it enabled him to systematize his thinking about art. He made up whole strings of teaching theory about color and form, and about the relation of theory to practice, embellished with neat little diagrams of fuzzy squares and charging black arrows. The main...
...lurked under the rug. His one self-indulgence was cooking. He always bore a social grudge against Picasso, having refused to let him in when, like any Spaniard, Picasso arrived two hours late for their one and only appointment. (What they would have said to each other is conjectural. Klee spoke little French and no Spanish, Picasso no German...
...been able to sit at home and write." Schuller's beautifully crafted works have been played by some of the finest performers and orchestras in the world. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Of Reminiscences and Reflections, and his early work, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee , is a classic...
...museum has a collection of 1920s central European abstraction, including works by Paul Klee, El Lissitzy and Wassily Kandinsky...