Modern oil painting

Modern oil painting
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Robert Reed / Special to The Daily Yomiuri. For lovers of Modern oil painting of the first half of the 20th century and for those who want to deepen their appreciation of the art developments of this important period, the show Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, now running at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Shibuya, Tokyo, is one you should not miss. This is the same show that is being advertised in Japanese under the title The Era of Picasso and Klee, but it by no means focuses solely on these two 20th-century masters. The show is in fact a choice sampling of European painting of this period in 64 works by 23 artists, including not only Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso, but also Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Chaim Soutine, Joan Miro, Rene
Magritte, Yves Tanguy and Robert Delaunay among others. Most of these works from the celebrated Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen collection are being shown in Japan for the first time, and it is the consistently high quality of the individual works that makes this show so worth seeing. While most of the 23 artists are represented by just one or two works, there is a definite
focus to be found in the fact that Picasso is represented by five oil paintings and one collage and Klee by seven oils and 20 watercolors and drawings. These are two artists for which the Kunstsammlung collection is especially noted, and in the case of Klee there is a very specific reason for the museum's outstanding selection and number of works. The state of Nordrhein-Westfalen is Germany's industrial and commercial heartland and also a center of the arts. When plans were launched to create a state museum for Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf,
Seascape oil painting the first priority was to amass an unparalleled collection of the works of Klee (1879-1940), who had taught at the Bauhaus and the Dusseldorf Art Academy.
However, in addition to Klee's connection to the region, this was an important part of a concerted effort to reclaim a heritage of German art that had been lost during the Nazi era. Prior to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi Party, Impression oil painting Klee had been an emerging star of a German art world that was quite different in character from the French art scene led by Spaniard Picasso and Frenchman Matisse. As such, Klee had been invited to teach art in Dusseldorf in 1931 for what would be an unexpectedly short tenure. With the establishment of the socialist Nazi regime in 1933, Klee was forced to quit his teaching position. His works were eventually designated "decadent art" by the Nazi Party Camel (in a Rhythmic Landscape oil painting of Trees) (1920, 43) When Klee uses the words "rhythmic" or "harmony" in his titles, it is with a particular authority. Son of musician parents and a great lover of music himself, Klee was an orchestra.