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Like organic spongy life of the sea or the weird shapes that bubble and float before our half-closed eyes in bright sunlight, the forms of Joan Miro drift across his canvasses. For their simplicity, the crescents, spots and silhouettes have been called no form at all but only elements--embryos of form like "graffati that children scratch on walls" or that "prehistoric man engraved in caves...
...with Goya or Picasso. Miro's world even as it exhibits the primal images of Jungian psychology does not cause pain. It does not probe or disturb the way Klee's calligraphic revelations of the subconscious seem to. Using one of his recurrent forms--the ladder Miro prefers to drift into a sea or sky world. As he said when the war broke out "I felt a deep desire to escape. I closed myself within myself purposely." Walking by the sea he read Rimbaud and Mallarme and explained that "the night music and the stars began to play a major...
...able to sustain industrial mass production or even to defend itself? Does it make sense that Arabs and Israelis continue to defy the law by prolonging a quarrel that neither can win? Does it make sense that Asia, wishing only for national freedom and economic progress, is allowed to drift toward slavery and reaction...
Game of Love. Two French adolescents drift in the warm round of young love: a modern vegetation mystery made from a novel by Colette (TIME...
Russia's hard about-face in Europe slowed down a growing dissatisfaction in Germany with Konrad Adenauer's foreign policy; it halted the drift toward the formation of a Communist popular front in France; and Russia's new anti-Western bellicosity might well reawaken those drowsy Europeans whose tensions had got relaxed. Against these losses had to be set what Russia hoped to gain in the uncommitted Arab-Asian lands...