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exhibitions,includingashowofabstractartinAmericaheldattheMuseumof
ModernArtinNewYork,andhewasrepresentedintheinternationalexposition
ofsurrealisminParisin1947.One-manshowshavebeengiveninNewYork,Paris,
andattheDetroit(Michigan)InstituteofArts.Since^1946 hehasbeenonthestaff
oftheUniversityofMichiganatAnnArborandwasgivenagrantforresearchin
Parisinthesummerof1949.Kamrowski'sworkformspartofthecollectionsofYale
UniversityinNewHaven,Connecticut,andofthePhillipsMemorialGalleryin
^Vashington,D.C.
KEPES,Gyorgy,Monument, 72 x24.
"Inalifetornbydirectionlessdynamics,thatworshipsmereactivityanddis-
regardspurposeandvalue,Ineedmeaningandtranquility.InpaintingIamnot
satisfiedwiththemuscularacrobaticsofviolentlinesandexplosivecolors,withtheir
compasslcssabandon.Isuspectthe ego-dominatedvisualexercisesinpersonality
competition.Iamsearchingforthoselow-energyexperienceswhich,intheirsub-
duedscale,allowmoreembracingpatternsoforder.Iamseekingaffinitiesbetween
mycompletemomentsandthe patternsofmysurroundingsandhavefoundfor
myselfanewmeaningforlandscape.Thetranquil,yetverv'muchalive,rhythmof
someage-old,commonplaceexperiences—asunset—branchofatree—suggestfor
methecoherenceandcompletenesssolackinginoururbanindustrializedchaos.By
paintingthemIkeepthemtoguidemetotherichpotentialvaluesinherentinthe
newlandscapeofthescientificworld.
"Ilovetopaint,and,tobehonest,Ilovemypaintings,and\erymuchhope
thatotherswillfeelthesamewayaboutthem."
KepeswasborninSelyp,Hungary,in1906.From 1924 to 1929 hestudiedat
theRoyalAcademyofFineArtsinBudapest.
In 1937 hecametotheUnitedStatesofAmericatoheadtheLightandColor
DepartmentoftheInstituteofDesigninChicago,apositionhehelduntil1943.In
1946 hejoinedthefacultyoftheMassachusettsInstituteofTechnologyasprofessor
ofvisualdesignattheSchoolof.ArchitectureandPlanning.
Hisworkhasbeenseeninone-manandgroupshowsinBudapest,Vienna,Berlin,
London,Copenhagen,Stockholm,Amsterdam,andtheUnitedStatesofAmerica.
HehasalsodonegraphicdesignsforFortunemagazine,theContainerCorporation
ofAmerica,andAbbottLaboratories,between1938-1950.In^1939 and^1949 hewas
given'anawardbythe.AmericanInstituteofGraphic.Arts.Kepescollaboratedwith
L.Moholy-NagyonfilmandtheaterprojectsinBerlinandhasworkedonvarious
housingexhibitions.HecreateddecorativepanelsfortheGraduateCenteratHarvard
University,Cambridge,Massachusetts,in1950-1951, anddidaporcelainexterior
muralfortheFitchburgChildren'sLibraryatFitchburg,Ma.ssachusetts..\bookby
Kepes,LansiuagcofVision,publishedin1944,isnowinitsseventhedition.Hehas
alsocontributedtootherbooksandjournalsonartandarchitecture.Hisworkforms
partofthecollectionsofthemuseumofCranbrook.\cadcmyof.\rtinBloomlicld
Hills,Michigan,andoftheMuseumofModernArtinNew^ork,
KINGMAN,Dong,Ani^clSquare, 30 x44. Illustration—Plate 95
"theangelsquaresubjectisactuallytakenfromtimes.square,ihavestudiedthe
subjectdayandnightformorethantwoyears,ihavemadethumbnailsketches
fromtimetotimedirectlyorindirectly....
"l)c<;ui<cthetitleofthepaintingisangelscjuare,somellunmhl(hispicturehad
