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                    "title": "Selected Acquisitions",
                    "description": "<i>Selected Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).",
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                    "title": "Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper",
                    "description": "<i>Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).",
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        "description": "Working in Munich during 1911\u201312, Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9 Vassily Kandinsky wrote the treatise <em>Concerning the Spiritual in Art,</em> which established that a work of art could be totally abstract and devoid of a representational concept yet still express emotions. According to the artist, the image should develop first in the inner mind, or subconscious, and then in pictorial form. This is exemplified here in the bird surrounded by abstract forms.",
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