Amid suits of armour, medieval altarpieces and tapestries, 50 cubist and surrealist works of Paul Klee went on exhibition in the Germanic Museum yesterday. The collection received a varied reception.
Alfonse Fink, a freshman at Cambridge High and Latin School, criticized the modern works. He stated, "My kid brother could do better." When the point was pressed, he admitted, "Maybe he couldn't, but I sure could."
Similarly unimpressed, Charles E. Zeitler '53 commented, "It's crazy!"
All the comments were not so disparaging as the above. Guide U. Saudri '58 said, "His works are beautiful . . . they're exciting and scintillating." Martin Barooshian, a junior at the Boston Museum of Art, felt that Kice's work has a "strange, mystic quality."
William J. Gievis, a student at the Massachusetts School of Art, was cautious in his comment. He said, "I just about think he's crazy . . . some of his stuff is very naive, and yet its mature too."
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