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...Small Seurat peasants bend to their toil near some childlike magic created by Paul Klee and a few austere and haunting landscapes by Lyonel Feininger. And near them hang the museum's latest acquisitions-two perfect chrysanthemums, one in pencil, the other in watercolor-done by Piet Mondrian in the days before he began painting his color-laden grilles...
Sunken Caissons. In a country where three-fifths of the population live on land reclaimed from the sea, the closure was a national event. Dutchmen the nation over sat glued to their TV sets; Queen Juliana herself was on hand aboard the royal yacht Piet Hein...
Born in Hannover in 1887, Schwitters forsook the realism of his academic art training to become associated first with the sardonic Paul Klee, then with the Dadaists and such pioneer abstract painters as Piet Mondrian. But all his life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz...
...Despite Piet Mondrian, not all Dutch artists are squares. The most noted American abstract expressionist, Willem de Kooning, is Rotterdam Dutch, and his opposite number in Europe, Karel Appel, is Amsterdam Dutch. Last week Appel both enthralled and infuriated the home town with a major retrospective at Amsterdam's Municipal Museum. Appel himself stayed in his house in Paris. "I can't stand Holland," Appel confided fiercely, "for more than two or three days...
...Calder took a good look at the paintings of another friend, Piet Mondrian, and concluded: "Your rectangles should vibrate and oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...