Read Indepth Article Oct 11, 2008
Boynton's ability to construct emotionally and psychologically charged imagery is reminiscent of De Kooning's Women series, as well as the mysterious yet playful works of Paul Klee. Her works have the ability to incite uncanny humor, without losing their poignant intellectual sensibility. (AbsoluteArts.com)
At least it didn't hit the fan - giant faeces floats free Aug 14, 2008
The fake faeces has been returned and will remain on display at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern until October ... The Zentrum Paul Klee, which opened in 2005, houses a collection of about 4,000 works by the noted Swiss painter. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Pulsating Decorativeness: Recent Paintings of Asit Mondal Aug 14, 2008
The expressionistic products in his paintings yield to various kinds of fantasy elements, where in the submerged layers one can feel the quintessential flavor of Paul Klee. Very often an Egyptian silence reigns. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Giant dog turd causes chaos Aug 13, 2008
a giant dog turd, as seen in this screen grab from the Paul Klee Centre website,blew away from an exhibition in Switzerland. Photo: Paul Klee Centre ... The wind carried it 200 metres from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Giant inflatable turd escapes moorings and brings down electricity ... Aug 12, 2008
"Complex Shit", a sculpture by the American artist Paul McCarthy, cast loose its moorings and was lifted by a sudden gust of wind from the Paul Klee centre in Berne and carried 200 yards to eventually make landfall in the grounds of a children's home ... The Paul Klee centre's website described the show as containing "interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones.". (Telegraph.co.uk)
Flying piece of art causes museum chaos in Switzerland... Aug 12, 2008
The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children's home, said museum director Juri Steiner. The inflatable turd broke the window at the children's home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. (The Drudge Report)
Where The Wheelchairs Roam Jul 20, 2008
Among the collection's treasures are etchings from late in Goya's career and works by Max Klinger, Max Ernst, Odilon Redon, Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet and printmaker Piranesi. A film program includes work by Bunuel and others. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Art like youve never seen it before Jun 20, 2008
They have learned how to paint to music like expressionist Wassily Kandinsky, have learned the one line design of Paul Klee, have painted sunflowers like Vincent van Gogh, have sculpted in the form of Constantin Brancusi, have created beautiful flowers like Georgia O Keefe, and have even painted Claude Monet s garden. The artwork is then displayed throughout the school, mounted and labeled, along the hallway walls, in the classrooms and throughout the gymnasium. (Georgetown Record, MA)
O'Keeffe legacy forever intertwined with Stieglitz May 27, 2008
Early 20th-century artists like Paul Klee looked to children's paintings and drawings for inspiration as did O'Keeffe early in her career. Stieglitz yearned to see the ideal woman as a great child his term for O'Keeffe. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Soccer fever descends on Alpine nations May 26, 2008
City bus and tram services take visitors to the new Paul Klee museum on the outskirts of town, home to about 40 percent of the Swiss-born artist's 10,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings. (Source: Shanghai Daily). (Xinhuanet, China)
Soccer And Sightseeing In Europe May 13, 2008
City bus and tram service takes visitors to the new Paul Klee museum on the outskirts of town, home to about 40 percent of the Swiss-born artist's 10,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings. BASEL: Switzerland's main port on the Rhine offers views and walks along the river. (CBS News -- World)
Souren Melikian: A healthy tempo set in Modernist sales May 8, 2008
A small watercolor by Paul Klee, which draws on the twin heritage of Cubism and Surrealism, then made $1. 32 million, much more than expected. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Joseph Solman, preeminent painter at crossroads of 20th-century American art Apr 18, 2008
Mr. Solman liked to cite Honor Daumier, Paul C zanne, and, especially, Paul Klee as his major influences. He worked in many media - drawings, monotypes, and gouaches as well as oils. (Boston Globe)
Turkey: Discovery of 12,000-year-old Temple Complex Could Alter Theory of Human Development Apr 18, 2008
"Two square meters of geometric shapes, in red, black and white - a bit like a Paul Klee painting," explains Eric Coqueugniot, the University of Lyon archaeologist who is leading the excavation. Coqueugniot describes Schmidt s hypothesis that Gobekli Tepe was meeting point for feasts, rituals and sharing ideas as "tempting," given the site s spectacular position. (EurasiaNet.org)
Is David Claerbout's work video or still photography? Only time will tell Mar 16, 2008
Jean-Luc Godard and Paul Klee, two of the freer-floating sensibilities in 20th-century culture, were born in Switzerland, for goodness' sake. But in Claerbout's case it's telling that he should come from such an in-between place: not France, not the Netherlands, but a country that draws on both for an identity that's distinct itself yet elusive. (Boston Globe)
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City of Basel Rejects Bid for Munch, Chagall Art by Nazi Victim's Heirs Mar 1, 2008
The works Glaser sold that are now in the Basel museum's collection include a lithograph self-portrait by Munch, several etchings by Beckmann and Corinth, lithographs by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Max Pechstein, Odilon Redon, Matisse and Paul Klee and drawings by Auguste Rodin. A Munch print sold for more than $1 million in Norway in 2006, putting it among the most expensive prints ever sold. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Students at Mexican school for Down syndrome winning acclaim Feb 11, 2008
Such vivid colors and broad brush strokes captivated Swiss artist and pediatrician Christine Aebi who took 28 of the paintings to Switzerland for a 10-day show she organized at Bern's Paul Klee Museum in September 2006. "I was positively shocked by the beauty of the paintings. It was something like when I saw Klee's paintings for the first time," says Aebi, who has treated Down children. (AZCentral -- News)
Malibu Seen (1) Feb 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Edition. "Museum curator Stephanie Barron has watched the collection grow over the years. "This is a collection that has been built carefully and painstakingly over several decades," Barron says. "Having these works available at LACMA will forever change how future generations of visitors will understand modern art in Los Angeles. (Malibu Times, CA)
Iconic designer with a single-minded approach Jan 31, 2008
Born in 1908 in Winterthur, which lies close to Zurich, Bill started training as a silversmith before moving to Germany to study as an artist under Swiss legend Paul Klee. From 1929 Bill started training as an architect in Zurich and designed his own home in his early 20s. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Poet, biographer, feminist Diane Middlebrook dies of cancer at 68 Dec 17, 2007
Their Russian Hill apartment, where the couple hosted many gatherings of intellectuals and artists, has spectacular 360-degree views of the San Francisco Bay and an equally spectacular art collection, with works by Paul Klee. They also lived part of the year in London, where they spent summers and the fall theater season. (San Francisco Chronicle)
L.A. museum given Picasso, Matisse works Dec 14, 2007
The gift from Janice and Henri Lazarof includes 20 works by Picasso; two versions of Constantin Brancusi's signature bronze, "Bird in Space;" seven figurative sculptures and a painting by Alberto Giacometti; two dozen works by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger and Impressionist pieces by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro. "It's a major deal to get this work in one fell swoop, at a time when the art market has made it nearly impossible for museums to purchase work of this quality,"... (MSNBC -- News)
New acquisitions at Cleveland Museum of Art Dec 14, 2007
CMA s early modern European collection has gained a 1929 watercolor by Paul Klee, Ghost Rider Late in the Evening. It incorporates a spraying technique Klee devised while teaching at the Bauhaus, an innovative art and design school in Germany. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
LACMA gets huge gift Dec 12, 2007
" About 80 works from the collection will go on view Jan. 13, a month before the museum unveils the first phase of an ambitious expansion and renovation program that includes a new contemporary art building financed by Los Angeles collector-philanthropist Eli Broad. The Lazarof donation will debut in three galleries on the plaza level of the Ahmanson Building, in a new 22,000-square-foot showcase for modern art. Although Henri Lazarof is a veteran composer and his wife, a daughter of the late... (Los Angeles Times)
Can paintings create music? Dec 8, 2007
Paul Klee, an accomplished musician, applied the themes and theories of music to his art. Building on this history, Sapieyevski created a motion sensor box that is mounted above the artist's canvas. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Shaped into greatness Dec 3, 2007
Working alongside them were great artists like Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky. Even today, some 75 years after the Bauhaus closed, our lives wouldn't be the same without it. (International Herald Tribune)
Artist famous for her crafts Nov 7, 2007
She quoted Miss Phillips:"The works of Paul Klee never fail to give me new ideas. Many of his compositions are harmonious lattices of verticals and horizontals, linear qualities that are so inherent to knitting."Janet Koplos, senior editor of "Art in America," is a co-author of a soon-to-be published history of American studio crafts. Miss Phillips' work will be among 500 images encompassing 125 years of artists' work. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Hodler climbs to new heights Oct 23, 2007
Jawlensky (1864-1941), a contemporary of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, had a great interest in drawing throughout his life, but this aspect of his work was largely overshadowed by the success of his paintings. The exhibition, entitled "The Significance of the Line", at the Cantonal Art Museum in Italian-speaking Lugano, brings together around 60 Jawlensky sketches from international museums and private collections. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
James Watson: Genetic disorder Oct 20, 2007
The Molecular Biology of the Gene (1965), Molecular Biology of the Cell (1983) and Recombinant DNA (1984) earned him enough to build an art collection, including works by Paul Klee and Andr; Derain. For 15 years he was professor of microbiology at Harvard but quit in 1976 to concentrate on research and the molecular biology laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, of which he had become director in 1967 at the age of 39. (Independent)
Art as child’s play Oct 20, 2007
On Thursday, it was reported that French archaeologists discovered a wall painting in Syria whose tricolored, geometric pattern resembles the work of abstract painter Paul Klee. The catch: At 11,000 years old, it s the oldest painting in the world. (Montana Standard, MT)
Edgar Meyer; Michel Camilo; L.A. Philharmonic Sep 13, 2007
Slatkin then took a risk, launching the urban second half with Gunther Schuller's "Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee" -- last played by the Phil in 1974, yet never before performed at the Bowl. Epigrammatic, understated, bitingly dissonant, with one movement of sauntering jazz and another based rather provocatively (in the context of Sept. 11) on Arabic music, it's a tough, ear-catching fusion of idioms that was bound to ruffle some staid feathers in the boxes. (Variety)
Magnum uncorks champagne moments Aug 21, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Robert McFarlaneAugust 21, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hungarian art is a highlight at Maltz Museum Aug 10, 2007
Vajda s Abstract Composition, in hues of black and white, reflects the artist s interest in geometry, religious iconography, and the art of Paul Klee. Vajda was repeatedly drafted for forced labor by the Nazis. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Art forger finds Hollywood fame Jul 15, 2007
Myatt had advertised a service copying paintings, but Drewe persuaded him to recreate the work of some of the greatest names in art, including Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse. The story then moved on to the archives of the Tate and the Victoria t Museum, where Drewe slipped faked records for the paintings into the filing systems to create false provenances. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
For the First Time, a Noted Artist Shows Locally Jun 22, 2007
" "A Process in the Weather of the Heart," he added, citing a title from another of the Welsh poet's works. Mr. O'Donnell also savors the Pedagogical Sketchbooks by Swiss artist Paul Klee (1879-1940), terming them a whole research based on the study of nature. He finds the sketchbooks laced with whimsy as well. "Right there, he's my grandfather. Modernist critic] Dore Ashton used to say, you join families in art. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
And it was all yellow Jun 8, 2007
They look like origami birds, which one can imagine flying out of a 1920s Suprematist or constructivist canvas to alight on a Paul Klee tree. They are not really birds, but in my mind I see two hands fluttering as they manipulate the card, score, fold and paint them. (Guardian Unlimited)
The taming of the hue Jun 7, 2007
The first formal explorations of a teenager interested in Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian open the exhibition. But prismatic patterns and bright grids soon grow unstable. (Times Online)
Rather strange developments Jun 7, 2007
The exhibition features paintings and sculptures by pioneering artists including not just those in the title but also Salvador Dal;, Paul Klee, Aristide Maillol, Juan Gris and many others. "What I love about the show is that you can really be in the presence of great art here," said Maarten van de Guchte, museum director. (Jacksonville Business Journal, FL)
Children without sex is what future holds, claims inventor of Pill... Jun 2, 2007
With his fortune he bought a 1,200-acre ranch near San Francisco and indulged his passion for art, becoming a leading collector of the works of the painter Paul Klee. He also became a professor of chemistry at Stanford University which he is to this day. (The Drudge Report)
Newsweek International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, June 4, 2007 Issue May 28, 2007
Special Correspondent Michael Levitin reports that the historic home of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, part of the new Bauhaus permanent exhibit in Dessau, Germany, serves as a testament of the movement's functional "design for living" philosophy. It is the radiant symbol of an avant-garde movement whose activity was cut short-and one that people are now clamoring for. (PR Newswire)
"Rather Strange Developments" at the Cummer May 19, 2007
Paintings, sculptures, pastels and collages by renowned artists including Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee exemplify the avant-garde artistic movements of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, De Stijl (also known as Neo-Plasticism), Dada and Surrealism as well as other abstract and non-objective styles. Members, Free. (Florida Times-Union)
Bross, Danziger lectures to focus on work of Bosch, view of pop culture through lens of Greek tragedy Apr 27, 2007
A specialist in German renaissance art, Koerner has broad scholarly interests, having written on Paul Klee, Caspar David Friedrich, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, as well as self-portraiture in German renaissance art. His lectures on Bosch, Ward said, are part of a larger project in which he is examining conceptions of evil and goodness in 15th-and 16th-century art. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Art center names new director Apr 19, 2007
Perkins remembers Painter Paul Klee being the first artist to inspire her. "I was in a museum, I don't remember where, and I saw his painting of his cat with a bird in its head," says Perkins. (Shoreline Times, CT)
Read more... Apr 19, 2007
Art Links to Literacy uses works of art from the The Phillips Collections renowned permanent collection, including Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, and Paul Klee, to address themes that have impact on elementary school students, lives such as moving and feeling like an outsider. The program creates an innovative community of learning by engaging students and their parents or caregivers in programming, combined with professional development for their teachers. (PNN Online)
History of a nation on paper Mar 27, 2007
The irony would not have been lost on Hirschfeld-Mack, who had studied under Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky at the famous art and architecture school in Weimar, for the artist was part-Jewish, and had fled the Nazis for Britain in 1936. Despite that, he was arrested four years later and deported to Australia on the Dunera as an enemy alien. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Van Gogh is in the heirs Mar 24, 2007
Paul Klee, who discovered Van Gogh through his anguished and poetic letters but later found his paintings to be a bit much, made a grisaille watercolor of himself with ferocious eyebrows and a bitter mien. Like many of his peers, Klee saw Van Gogh's psychological troubles as alluring elements of a romantic biography. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Thoroughly modern Mondrian for Corcoran (Ann Geracimos and Kevin Chaffee) Mar 16, 2007
Upstairs in rooms reconfigured for the show, guests meandered through gallery after gallery admiring works by Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, among many others. One of the most unusual was the "Frankfurt Kitchen," the first built-in modern kitchen manufactured in mass quantity. (Washington Times, DC)
Heinz Berggruen, 93; art dealer owned renowned collection of 20th century works Mar 2, 2007
He sold the collection, which is rich in works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, in 2001 for a reported $110 million, far below market value. At the time, great Picassos had been going for as much as $55 million at auction. (Los Angeles Times)
Heinz Berggruen, at 93; was collector of Picasso and Klee Feb 28, 2007
The Berggruen collection at the Metropolitan encompasses 90 paintings and drawings by Paul Klee illustrating the artist's entire career of varied works. Museum Berggruen in Berlin, part of the Nationalgalerie, includes more than 100 works by Picasso from all phases of his career. (Boston Globe)
Obituary: Heinz Berggruen, noted art dealer and collector Feb 28, 2007
zanne, Matisse, Paul Klee, Hans Arp and Giacometti. Like many leading art dealers, he became a collector in his own right and, by 1980, he was ready to give up his gallery to focus his energy on enriching and sharing his collection. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Heinz Berggruen, Picasso collector and friend, dies Feb 27, 2007
The Berggruen collection at the Metropolitan encompasses 90 paintings and drawings by Paul Klee over his full career, making that museum a major repository of Klee's works. Museum Berggruen in Berlin, part of the Nationalgalerie, includes more than 100 works by Picasso from all phases of his career. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Students become art experts Feb 13, 2007
First-graders at Stafford Elementary School celebrated the birthday of famous artist Paul Klee in December ... The childlike paintings of Paul Klee have taught Stafford Elementary students some very grown-up lessons about art ... Following the five-day program, Stafford Elementary applied for and received a $2,000 grant from the Paul Klee Institute. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Martin Ramirez: An outsider in step with insider artists Jan 31, 2007
He belongs to the group of accessible, irresistible genius draftsmen that includes Paul Klee, Saul Steinberg and Charles Schulz. Well-selected and beautifully installed by Brooke Davis Anderson, a curator at the folk art museum, this show of 97 drawings, some mural-size, is the first museum exhibition of Ram. (International Herald Tribune)
Stafford pupils teach to learn with Phillips ... (Ann Geracimos) Jan 29, 2007
It's a double whammy bound to allow for strong retention of material being studied -- in this instance, the works of Paul Klee ... Early on, she told Art Talk students making puppets in a way that Paul Klee did for his only son that she didn't want the exercise to be making art "so much as talking about it and creating teachers." The Latin word for docent means "to teach," she told them ... "It is the concept of using an artist to add flavor and context to the classroom. In the second grade,... (Washington Times, DC)
Larger than Life Jan 25, 2007
" The playfulness of Paul Klee is also here. Some of the brushstrokes are like calligraphy, and some are repeated in a way that makes one think of the late illustrator Al Hirschfeld you almost want to start counting the "Nina"s. The more you look at Carl Burger's watercolors, the more you see: the trees, the woods, the moods of the sky. Did we mention these are huge? "Russ's Apple Trees," for example, is 6-feet-by-52-inches. Who even knew watercolor paper was available in such enormous sheets?... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Mystery Train Jan 23, 2007
Paul Klee and Saul Steinberg, among other modern artists, come to mind, but Ram;rez s command of pictorial construction, a kind of strictly paced visual music, is all his own. Technically, most of Ram;rez s drawings aren t drawings at all but encaustic-like paintings, done in a fluid paste of melted wax crayons, at times augmented with charcoal, fruit juices, shoe polish, and saliva. (New Yorker)
