Word: catalonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homage to Catalonia he attempted to write an objective account of the Spanish War. In this book--I think it was his best--his conclusions were sparse, but they seemed to come as discoveries. They exemplified the message that his later works elaborated: that if you make words only out of what you know to be true, and if these words are more often short than long, concrete than abstract, active than passive, the craziest-seeming truth may become clear...
...knew where clear writing would not get him. At the end of Homage to Catalonia Orwell wrote, "I have recorded some of the outward events, but I cannot record the feelings they have left me with. It is all mixed up with sights, smells and sounds that cannot be conveyed in writing." It was a part of his respect for privacy--his own and others'--that Orwell made no claim to go farther
...invited him to play and compose at the court. Britain's Queen Victoria soon summoned him to London for a command performance. But his early success gave him little contentment. Tormented by the carnage of World War I, he contemplated suicide, finally settled down in the 1920s in Catalonia, where he conducted a first-rate orchestra ("the grandest instrument of them...
...hieroglyphics scrawled on the richly glazed bark, some bug-eyed figurines that look as if they had just swallowed the pits with the cherries. Most successful are those that, like the 20-in. bull's head, derive their texture and form from the fantastic rock shapes abounding in Catalonia. Miró himself feels that his works, placed out of doors, "immediately form a unity with nature...
Miro traces his imagery back to the Romanesque frescoes of his native Catalonia and the influence of his teacher Urged who left him with an obsession for the red circle, the moon, and the star. To these can be added other sources of inspiration. From Cubism, Art Nouveau, Surrcalism, he borrowed eclectically. But when the literary and formal sources were exhausted he returned to the materials themselves for suggestions. This is one of the late developments noticeable in the loan collection from the Pierre Matisse Gallery at the M.I.T. library...