Word: gauguin
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Tidy Man. There are no novels about Klee, as there are about Gauguin, Modigliani and Picasso. For nothing ever happened to him. Even when the Nazis in 1933 began their suppression of cultural freedom in Germany, where Klee had been teaching for twelve years, he quietly moved back to Switzerland for refuge without fuss or rancor. Politics did not interest him, and his life-style scarcely changed. With his tabby cats, his violin, and his watercolors hung out to dry like dish towels on a clothesline in his studio, Klee had always seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde...
...roots of modernism (such as Oriental art) to discover her own direction, found it, and moved on. If she is a loner at 82, it is because of her special vision. To call her "provincial" because her images are mainly drawn from New Mexico is like calling Gauguin provincial because he worked in Tahiti...