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...reckoning, Joan Miró is probably the greatest living painter, at least of the generation that produced Picasso, Matisse, Gris and Dali. Amidst these driven men, Miró was always the elf, an antic poet who took Surrealism and made it gay, an irreverent abstractionist who planted sexual symbols in wide fields of indeterminate space. He is already so enshrined in art history that it is easy to assume that he is dead. But Miró is alive, and at 80 has taken off in a new creative direction...
...comic actor. A painter for 40 years, Zero had his first one-man show of more than 60 recent paintings and collages in Manhattan. "Let the paintings speak for themselves," he declared. And so they do, but in the accents of modern masters like Dubuffet, Klee and Miró. Zero's authentic voice can best be savored these days as he cavorts in a national touring company production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Currently: Valley Forge...
...best contemporary painters are Spanish: Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, the late Pablo Picasso and the late Juan Gris. Of these, the greatest is Dali. At least those are his opinions, delivered during a speech entitled "Velásquez and I" at the Prado. Madrid's al ta sociedad was on hand-but museum authorities were not-for the vernissage of the only contemporary painting in the famous gallery: Dali's portrait of a lady riding a horse as in a surrealist dream. His subject: Francó's granddaughter Carmencita, Princess Alfonso de Borb...
Tragic History. At the center of the book is the tragic literary history of Solzhenitsyn. Ironically, his troubles began with the publication of One Day by the literary magazine Novy Mir...
Alexander Tvardovsky, one of Russia's best-known poets, had published One Day while editor of Novy Mir. He soon fell into disgrace and was forced to leave the magazine. At his funeral in 1971, writes Medvedev, no friends were allowed to give eulogies. The ceremonies were strictly supervised by party functionaries who made no mention of Tvardovsky's role in the publication of Russia's great postwar novel...