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...here are not high Dada. The studies of El Lissitzky, Max Ernst, Moholy Nagy, Malewich and Hannah Hoch more often reflect a kind of experimentalism which hovers tenuously in the nether regions of design, just outside the gates of one muse or another. Every so often, of course, a Mondrian or a Klee comes along who makes something of it. Then cometh the rear guard which inevitably ends up, again, indebted to the theories and left with little else...
...compliments to young Richard Diebenkorn for having had the courage to break with the "new academy of abstraction." I am getting bored by the still-growing multitude of poor imitators of the 40-year-old experiments by Kandinsky, Klee and Mondrian, who, while never reaching them, insist on calling themselves the avant-gardists of our time...
...major movements which since about 1910 have transformed the very concept of art." Items: Marcel Duchamp's Lonely Boy on Train, from the same period as his famed Nude Descending a Staircase; examples of the 1913 Moscow Suprematist movement by Founder Malevitch and Follower Lissitzky; key works by Mondrian, Kandinsky, Braque, Picasso and Pollock. So famous is her collection that Venice's international Biennale once gave her a pavilion all to herself. Says Peggy: "It was wonderful, I was listed with Germany and France. I felt like a whole country all by myself...
...most fanciful and most substantial, Braque displays his talent for being perennially so very right, and Rouault, as usual, exhibits as much profundity in a landscape as in a crucifixion. It is good to see less exhibited figures such as Villon and Masson included, though Miro, Leger, Mondrian and the sculptor Lipschitz receive perhaps less than their...
Coming so soon after the Picasso job, your article on Mondrian flashlights the difference between profoundly creative art and the foxy razzle-dazzle of the greatest magician since the death of vaudeville...