Cow Vanishes Like Artist Klee in Abstract Show at MoMA
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In one series of drawings we can watch a cow transform -- almost cinematically -- from recognizable bovine into a purely abstract construction of lines and rectangular planes. Distilled into the essential forms and dynamics of its architecture, the animal completely disappears.
The series was created by Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg, and comes midway through the Museum of Modern Art’s mammoth exhibition “Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925,” which opens to the public on Dec. 23.