Includes an introduction by Mel Gooding The subject matter of Anita Klein's paintings and prints - the life of married love and family, the enthralling banality of the domestic - is so immediately affecting that is easy to underestimate the art that makes it so. For the truth is that subject matter itself cannot ever be the primary agency in the effect of art upon mind, emotion and spirit. The beauty and truth of any true artist's work lies, precisely, in its art: in the disposition of those means proper to the art, to the realisation of the intellectual and emotive effects of the individual work, 'the one picture or another'. And this is a matter of much more than technique, narrowly conceived; it is the outcome of a distinctive vision of life operating through a formal economy of the means available, which is style. In her recent paintings, Anita Klein has demonstrated an ever-growing mastery of those underlying, essentially abstract, principles that give life to art. Anita Klein's work celebrates the domestic: the very moments we should most value and are almost always ignored and forgotten. Her oils and prints appear in many national and private collections and are immediately accessible. Anita Klein studied at Chelsea and Slade schools of art. In 2003 she was elected president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
"Star of the show for me is the spare, knowing, subversive and comic work of a young painter called Anita Klein."
Godfrey Smith
"A blithe demonstration of intimacy..."
William Zimmer
"Ravel said he wanted his music to be complex, but not complicated. Anita Klein might say the same of her art. There is a grand simplicity to her works but that is not the same as saying they lack subtlety and ambiguity..."
John Russell Tyalor
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