Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most arists today Mirko rejects attempts, similar to those of Coney Island portraitists, at a frozen duplication of reality. The reality, he feels, is better than a copy because in the duplication you lose "the warmth of a cheek, or the movement of a tree." For art to equal nature it must "create its own magic reality...
...ultimately in the Mirko sculptures there is the creator. Every man has his own set of permanent beliefs or temporary feelings which go into the associations and expressions in his art...
Mirko s right when he denies stardom. To play Helen Hayes in the mid-twentieth century are scene which revolves around the blatantly rich New York market one must dream up a revolutionary original concept of art. There's Jackson Pollock, of course, who gave the physical making process so much more prominence than Mirko ever does. And there's Morris Louis, whose name and stripes of color are better known at Harvard than is Mirko. The action painter, the flat painter, the minimalist, the happening-creator, the sculptor of simple geometric forms at superhuman scale (Tony Smith...
Most of Mirko's works could fit into a Radcliffe cubicle, and his thoughts and interests and forms by now seem traditional. The uniqueness of his sculpture is one of expressed personality and artistic choices, not fundamental conception of art...
Critics have said that some patterns show Pre-Columbian influence, but Mirko denies this. And Mirko's patterns are less mazy and diffuse than those of often hallucination-inspired Pre-Columbian art...