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...Austrian artist Gustav Klimt were around for his 140th birthday on July 14, he'd probably be a happy man. A controversial artist whose erotic and sensual works were once scorned for their "unclear ideas through unclear forms," Klimt is now enjoying a splash of dead-artist celebrity, with his influence popping up in ads, restaurants and even shoes. O.K., maybe he wouldn't be that happy. --By Heather Won Tesoriero
...managed to splash a bit of that color around her room with stylish knowhow. A random assortment of pop postcards are displayed among cultured pictures of her favorite arists including Man Ray and Klimt. There is a Brattle Theater schedule and ads from recent Dolce and Gabbana ads (Agnes was intrigued by the way the ad campaign changed from season to season—black and white photos of exotic women one minute and technicolor Westernized shots the next) On the personal side, Agnes keeps a picture of her boyfriend and her name written in Chinese characters at eye level...
...surprising, 1900 being 1900, to see everywhere the imprint of the decorative style we call Art Nouveau, co-existing with the stern realism of Madrid, Munich and Thomas Eakins' Philadelphia. Its sources in great figures like Gauguin are not skimped; it's there in Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt and in a host of lesser figures across the world, including Australia--Sydney Long's Pan, 1898, with its fauns and sweetly sexless hippies cavorting discreetly by the evening billabong, takes great formal advantage of the serpentine shapes of native gum trees...
...pouring forward in hues of petrified amber. But her most spectacular piece, "Ambivalent Passages III," seems to defy this straight sanguine categorization. The layers of cheesecloth, beeswax, shellac, oil bar, paint and rice paper that Boutelle uses in her art are here transformed into a composition reminiscent of Gustav Klimt's "Water Serpents," mermaids entangled in algae and veins, now in vivid carmine hues...
...curation and sparing use of didactic wall texts are appropriately austere, boldly offsetting the colorful effusiveness of Gerhard Richter and the restrained hysteria of Max Beckmann. Also notable is a series of Bauhaus paintings (including works by Malevich and El Lissitsky), a pair of Jawlensky portraits, and an unusual Klimt. Currently on display is a collection of works by Hannah Darboven, touted by the curatorial staff as "one of the most important active German artists today." While Darboven's cutting-edge exploration of calendrical counting systems is mildly thought provoking, it is nonetheless another disappointing exa.m.ple of the diminishing importance...