Word: lineoleum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collection that Charles Haxhausen, curator of the Busch-Reisinger, and Ann Mochon, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, have organized suggests an answer to the enigma of Munter's obscurity. The tremendous diversity in the exhibition--which includes lineoleum prints, graphite sketches, and lithographs as well as paintings, but does not cover her photography or special projects like a purse and wall hanging executed by the artist from designs by Wassily Kandinsky--reveals the difficulty of pigeonholing Munter's talent...
...make the situation worse, Munter's style can't be pinned down to one movement. She shows little traditional influence in most of her work, and in others, a definite Symbolist tendency, like her Portrait of Kandinsky, 1906, a lineoleum print that portrays Kandinsky staring out penetratingly against a background of large patches of stained-glass color. Her later Blaue Reiter work shows the influence of artists Jawlensky and Macke, as well as Kandinsky. In Still Life with Sunflowers, a simple outline of a vase supports very simply painted flowers. Using a minimum of strokes, Munter has made the stems...
...Kandinsky provided invaluable guidance and support for Munter during the period of their association, and his influence in many areas undoubtedly aided her development of her own, stubbornly original style. This originality and her diversity of form also give her style the possibility of wider appeal; for example, three lineoleum prints of children's toys, called Playthings No. One, Two and Three, might capture the interest of a conservative-minded audience. The dolls, soldiers and stuffed animals, mostly in pink, yellow, light blue and green, look strikingly life-like. A harshness characteristic of German painting contrasts with the childlike simplicity...
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