New book puts a spotlight on the Bauhaus movement Oct 30, 2009
Filled with well-turned anecdotes and blissfully free from art-historical jargon, Weber's text follows the lives and careers of famed Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and of the painters Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Weber also offers a truly touching portrait of the husband-and-wife team of Josef and Anni Albers, who befriended him during the 1970s, when he was a graduate student and they were teaching art in the United States. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
90 years on, Bauhaus becomes crowd magnet in Berlin Aug 5, 2009
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Bauhaus anniversary show draws many visitors Jul 30, 2009
World-famous teachers such as Vasily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee or Oskar Schlemmer also put their imprint on the 1,250 students who were enrolled in the 14 years of the school's existence. According to the slogan "People's necessities, not luxuries," which was coined by Meyer, the "Bauhausers" created articles of daily use such as tea sets, chairs or set tables that could be afforded by all. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
Visions of Morocco and Tunisia Jul 12, 2009
Another member of Der Blaue Reiter was artist Paul Klee, who made a trip with Macke to Tunisia in the spring of 1914. Already wonderfully skilled with color, Macke produced a vibrant series of paintings during this Tunisian visit. (Suite101.com)
Baltimore museum puts art under the big top Mar 25, 2009
Others featured in the show brought a lighter touch to their work, including Paul Klee and Fernand Leger, who celebrated his love for the circus in an illuminated text called "Cirque" (1950). The colorful, playful lithographs from Leger's book close out the exhibit on a festive note. (Yahoo News)
KJ Lang: Artist collaborates with child Mar 20, 2009
Great painters such as Joan Miro and Paul Klee have made it a mission to embody childhood imagination in their art - to create artwork not tied to an analytical view of world like adults might do, said Williams Terpstra. With the red scribble staring her in the face, Williams Terpstra needed to make a decision: Tell her son no - or involve him in the creative process. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Landscape painting shaped the direction of art for a century, then all but vanished. What happened? Mar 1, 2009
Van Gogh, Gaugin, and Cezanne kept landscape in the vanguard of European art, and paved the way for painters like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Piet Mondrian, who all took landscape even further from nature, and deeper into abstraction. In one illustrative incident, Kandinsky famously noticed that a painting of his, accidentally hung upside down, was powerful on its own terms - without representing anything at all. (Boston Globe)
Saint Laurent Art Sets Records Feb 25, 2009
Although he is sanguine about the market, the dealer, based in Monte Carlo, Monaco, was staggered by Monday's sale, which also netted records for (two of the Dutchman's paintings sold for eight-digit figures), Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee and James Ensor. "It was the most amazing auction I've ever seen," Nahmad said on the main floor just after the last lot sold. (Time.com)
Baltimore Museum exhibit on circus art Feb 10, 2009
The museum exhibit, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Leger," runs through May 17, with prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures and books by Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Fernand Leger, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and other artists. The works range from Toulouse-Lautrec's 19th-century circus posters to Picasso's portraits of circus families, done in 1904 and 1905 in Paris, to lithographs from Leger's 1950 book "Cirque." Tickets are required to see the show. (Yahoo News)
