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"Anita
Klein is one of the finest and most collected printmakers |
| "At
a time when the art world seems to be full of artists attempting
to shock and denigrate, Klein’s intimate, life affirming work comes as a welcome breath of fresh air. Her works convey a unique pleasure in the everyday moments that make life special”. Vincent Eames, The Fine Art Partnership |
| “This
award reflects the emotional insight of Anita Klein in her observation and understanding of intimate social, family and sexual relationships, and her glorious ability to bring them to paper. It celebrates her sensual feel for form, human curves, shapes, moods, the patterns of touch between friends and friends – and lovers; the flow of their clothes and naked bodies; and the graceful optimism her paintings release into the world. They warm the air.” Best Artist award UK Fringe, Fringe Report 2007 |
| -“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. On the contrary, they have the sort of unselfconscious directness that comes from living and breathing art for so long that it becomes second nature”- John Russell Taylor, the Times |
| -“A
strong, quirkily humorous depiction of quotidian events”-
Nick Andrew, Galleries magazine |
| -“The
pictures, which celebrate the small moments of life which often
go unappreciated, are warm, witty and quite delightful”- Julia Weiner, Jewish Chronicle |
| “It
is quite brave not only to have a subject matter to your painting
these days but also to be fascinated by such ordinary things. There are no desperate attempts to shock, expose or outrage; simply poignant moments showing the things which you would most miss if they were taken away from you” - Helen Smithson, Ham & High. |
| -“Celebrating
oases of joy in the quotidian, Anita Klein builds a personal archive, brimming with charisma and wit, that can be identified with by everyone” - Britart.com |
| -“It
is nice to have a real humorist recruited to the ranks of gifted
painters. She is to be congratulated on livening up our dreary lives” - Guy Burn, Art Review. |
| -“Star
of the show for me is the spare, knowing, subversive and comic work
of a young painter called Anita Klein” - Godfrey Smith, Sunday Times |
| -“A
blithe demonstration of intimacy” - William Zimmer, New York Times |
| -"She
is an artist of extraordinary verve and lyrical touch...These images
are mirrors of a resonant delight in the moment, an exhuberant and infectious love of life.Unfashionable as it is, Anita Klein’s work actually makes us happy."- David Carpanini, PRE |
- “Anita
Klein renders the ordinary existence into a celebration of
life - mostly |
| - ‘I
know she’s got a quirky scale and that the figures are larger
than life,’ says Jenny Groom, owner of a cookery school in Wiltshire, who bought one of Anita Klein’s oil paintings five years ago, ‘but it just accentuates their personality. The painting I have is called "Tuesday Evening", and it shows two women sitting across the table from one another, each holding a glass of wine. You just know they’ve got rid of their husbands and the kids are in bed and they’re having a good gossip, and it makes me laugh every time I look at it. She observes the minutiae of family life - the little things we do that are important to us. If my house was burning down, this is what I’d save.’- (Quoted in the Telegraph Magazine 2004 ) |
| -“Those
values of disegno - line and division, pure colour planes, formal
pattern and interval - are those of the great mural painting of the early renaissance - the art of Giotto, Piero della Francesco and Masaccio - that Klein reveres above all others, and to which she has paid the closest attention. Like theirs, hers is an art of stillness, of action caught and suspended in the transfiguring moment.... These are the elements of abstract style, the components of the formal economy to which I referred at the outset. They are to be found ... in the quattrocento modernism that placed such revolutionary value upon the depiction of ordinary men and women in extraordinary circumstances, conferring dignity upon them by abstract formalities of figuration and placement. Klein puts these grand principles of ‘artistic style’ to work in the transformation of the South London quotidian, creating out of household events and holiday pleasures images of a resonant contemporary myth of love.”- Mel Gooding April 2006 |