more Greenberg on Klee

Here again, who knows whether he’s right or not? But this passage (which is meant to contrast Klee’s mental environment with Picasso’s) is so nicely done. It’s the sort of thing Dilthey might have come up in one of his more detailed historical works:

“In spite of Klee’s own aspirations [his art] pretends to no statements in the grand style; it concentrates itself within a relatively small area, which it refines and elaborates. It moves in an intimate atmosphere, among friends and acquaintances. It belongs to Berne, Basel, Zurich, old-fashioned Munich, a region of bright, alert small cities…”