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Mr. Warburg Exhibits

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Paul Klee’s Paintings



His Interpretation of Pictures
Emphasizes a Symmetrical
Balance of Form

HUMOR. SOPHISTICATED





Four paintings by Paul Klee~are
now on exhibition in the Common

Room. They were hung Tuesday af-
ternoon when Mr. E. M. M. Warburg
gave a short talk on their author,
Paul Klee, a contemporary German
painter. Klee was one of the leaders
of the movement at the Bauhaus in
Dessau, where modern German ‘paint-
ing is taught. Mr. Warburg told of
his visit to Klee’s home, where he
found the artist playing a Bach vio-
lin solo. Klee did. not greet the vis-
itors until he had finished the selec-
tion. His' love of music’ is manifest
in his works, in which he plays Air
and Variations with form in picto-
graphic paintings.

The American point of view, said
Mr. Warburg, has always been, “Why
not do this or that,” the “Try any-
thing-once”-attitude; while the Euro-
pean point of view is “Why?” The
reverse is now true of these paint-

ings. Herr/Klee has said, “Why not |

paint a picture like the CAT AND
BIRD, the SHEPHERD, the LAST
SNOW, or the DEPARTURE OF
SHIPS?” And we, looking at them
without any attempt at understand-
ing them, say, “Why paint these
meaningless daubings?” This is why
this modern artist does paint in this
manner: an artist has line, color
and mass with which to compose, and
he builds up his composition from
nature. He can paint either objects
of nature or architecture. In the lat-
ter type of painting he builds up his
picture with forms into a kind‘ of
facade. He weights his picture with
symmetry, balancing its component
parts obviously. As we always look
at faces and hands to judge charac-
ter, these most telling features are
most frequently used—to—balance—a
picture. This is one type of architec-
tural painting. Another is the use of
stylized patterns and decorative mo-
tifs. A third is Klee’s type of paint-
ing, the juxtaposition of ideas, with
which. he -builds a mood.

In the CAT AND_ BIRD, the bird
is thought to be between the cat’s
eyes, because the cat is looking at it.
The fascination of a cat watching a
bird is established here; the painting
is symmetrical in design and amusing
in color. Klee has a great sense for
surface texture, and has done this in
plaster. The SHEPHERD is com-
posed of hieroglyphs like the port-
manteau words in ALICE IN WON-
DERLAND. in the verses,

“Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsey were the borogoves
And the mome rathes outgrabe.”

The ideas in the picture ‘are pulled
together by form, and stay swell -in:
the center of the canvas with no-dan-
ger of their sliding off the canvas, or
even out of balance. The LAST
SNOW is less admirable in ideology,
It is merely a balancing of form,
color and texture in a frame like a
less happy exaggeration of some of
the paintings of Picasso. The DE-
PARTURE OF SHIPS, which is own-
ed by Mr. Warburg, is a delightful
composition. It gives us pleasure be-
cause’ it is built up of little forms
which we recognize, and from this
point we go on to embroider on the



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theme of the picture in our own

minds. It is’ Romantic because it

pulls us and demands a certain con-
centration, as it is the mental _asso-
ciations suggested by the forms of
the painting which make it a com-
pleted entity.

Klee is a serious painter, but he
has a sense of humor. He is very
fond of cats and one day when one
was walking on one of his drawings
he would ‘not allow it to be shoved
off. “In two hundred years,” he re-
marked, “people will say, ‘How did
he ever get that effect?’” His pic-
tures are simple, but are executed
with sophistication and are complete
entities created with balance of form.
In them he says what he means and
They are not to
be judged with the standards of
Shakespeare, but with. those of
ALICE IN WONDERLAND. If seen
in this light without prejudices, there
is much enjoyment to be derived from
his paintings.

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Miss Katherine. H, Hepburn, for-
merly of Hartford, has been cast to

appear in “The Warrior’s Husband,”
the comedy by Julian Thompson, :

sponsored by Harry Moses, which is
going into rehearsal.
is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

Thomas N. Hepburn. She _ was
graduated from Bryn Mawr College
in 1928, and shortly after graduation
joined the Knopf Stock Company in
Baltimore, thereafter being seen on
Broadway in “Night Hostess” and
“Art and Mrs. Bottle,” in addition
to. acting as understudy to Hope Wil-
liams throtighout the long run of
“Holiday.” During the summer of
1930 she appeared with the Berkshire
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