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...most famous artists in the exhibition, Paul Klee, also uses the grotesque to mock bourgeois society in his etchings, likening his subjects to animals through the form and tone of the lines. Among the exhibition??s greatest strengths is its juxtaposition of early works by renowned artists with their later works, showing the course of their development. This is true of Klee’s etchings, which differ vastly from his subsequent joyful, childlike stick figures in both technique and subject...
Morris Levy, the exhibition??s curator, worked with Ward both to write the catalogue for Ward’s collection and to arrange the exhibition. When asked what makes this particular exhibition unique, Levy explained that “the range of materials, including illustrations, documents about the King’s Theatre, [and] scores [creates] such a wide combination, representing almost 200 years of theatre history, when the King’s Theatre was really at the center of everything that was happening...
...sure, in 1914 Kandinsky’s adherence to theosophy lent his painting an idealism which we may now find untenable. The wildly expressionistic paintings in the current exhibition??images, in his words, of the “thundering collision of different worlds”—are bathed in the white, diaphanous light of a total spiritual order. The apparent chaos of disassociated lines, cacophanous colors, and uprooted forms are, in a similar way, organized into a careful design— a utopian map of what Kandinsky named the “new world called...
...exhibition??s dialogue continued in both text and images, from video footage of modern-day Iraq to multicolored quotes from friends and family responding to the question, “What do you wish for?” to a tea party of duck-taped stuffed animals...
...origins from the 16th century (Hyde Park, London) to the future (Fresh Kills Reserve on Long Island, N.Y.)—seeing the parks together allows a viewer to recognize their similarities and brings about the new interpretations of the roles and possibilities of large parks that the exhibition??s organizers seek...