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...reckless anticipation that miracles can strike twice. It puts unholy pressure on the young skaters, some of whom had hardly begun shaving four years ago, when Jim Craig, Mark Johnson and the rest were working their legerdemain at Lake Placid. But if any coach can reproduce a mir acle, Vairo, 38, may be the one: his own success story points to the moral that in sport, anything is possible...
...died on the island of Mallorca, but came from Catalonia, the Spanish province whose language, humor and sights had fueled his imagination all his life. Most great art is rooted in provinciality, and Miró's was no exception. He was a city boy, a goldsmith's son, but he spent part of his youth on the farm that his parents owned at Montroig. Its white, cracked walls, dusty earth and heatstruck furrows-commemorated in lunar detail in The Farm, 1921-22-were the frame of an immense repertory of images that constituted the motifs...
...When Miró took up art studies in Barcelona (where one of his fellow students was the ceramicist José Lloréns Artigas, who would later become Miró's chief collaborator in sculpture), he started with the very specific, dense and playful sense of nature that only a country childhood can give...
...What Miró did with this fund of imagery after he moved to Paris in 1919 marked his emergence. Miró did not need groups. He became a surrealist because surrealism needed him; it had plenty of poets but no great formal artist (as distinct from vivid dream illustrators like Dali or Magritte). Even allowing for the recent rise in the critical fortunes of André Masson, the painter who introduced Miró to the surrealist group, it still seems clear that, as a draftsman and colorist, as an inventor of epigrammatic shapes set in exquisitely pure pictorial fields, Mir...
...canvas that, being mostly blank, is clearly not a photograph; and then, around a shapeless blob of blue pigment, the wiry script declares that "this is the color of my dreams." Yearning is fixed in a depicted absence. "In my pictures there are tiny forms in vast empty spaces," Miró once explained. "Empty space, empty horizons, empty planes, everything that is stripped has always impressed...