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...alluding to his habit of steady work, moving from ceramics to painting, from sculpture to lithography, as one might turn from picking the lettuces to watering the celery. Today, in his 82nd year, he continues to do so, ensconced in the enormous white studio his friend and fellow Catalan, the architect José Luis Sert, built for him on the island of Mallorca in 1956. Mird lives near by, among his peas, vines and carobs, in a house cluttered by found objects and rustic earthenware. He has been married to the same wife, Pilar Juncosa, since...
...Picasso, Miró is one of the three great modern artists Spain has produced. Both Picasso and Gris immersed themselves in the cosmopolitan culture of Paris. They became European rather than "Spanish" artists. But, as Miró pointed out in a letter to a friend, he remained "an international Catalan." Miró without Catalonia would no longer...
There is a very specific, dense and playful sense of nature that only a rural childhood can give. The bawdy animism of Miró's early paintings, done with a sharp, quizzical line that chirrups like a grasshopper in the Catalan dust, is a matter of detail and observation: getting the nose in and keeping it there. When he was working on one of his first great paintings, The Farm, a compendium of animal, vegetable and human life at Montroig, Miró even brought back some dried grasses from Catalonia to Paris to serve as a model. Ernest Hemingway...
...church-state dispute was further complicated last week by the execution of a young anarchist, Salvador Puig Antrich, 26, for the murder of a policeman in Barcelona. Puig was a Catalan, a member of Spain's other belligerent minority, and his death was the first political execution in a decade. It touched off protest marches all round the country. Many Spaniards were appalled by the fact that Puig had been killed by garroting.* In protest, Camilo José Cela, Spain's best-known contemporary novelist (The Family of Pascual Duarte, Pavilion of Repose), refused to take his seat...
Instead he works day long and night late in the Majorca house designed for hun by a fellow Catalan, José Luis Sert, former dean of the Harvard School of Design. The walls are studded with photographs of still another Catalan, Pablo Picasso. Miró is preparing for his huge retrospective to be mounted in Paris' Grand Palais next May. "Age does not exist," he says. "It is all a question of the mind, of the spirit. As I grow older, I work harder than ever." His studio is studded with some two dozen unfinished canvases...