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...Joan MirÓ, D.A. Spanish painter. His joyful creations have greatly enhanced the artistic resources of this...
...envision a large collection," explains S.M.U. Director William Jordan, "but rather one of the best." S.M.U. has already acquired some fine Goya engravings, a distinguished Velásquez portrait; other works by artists ranging from Zurbaran to Miró. The loveliest of the lot is Murillo's landscape showing Jacob with Laban's flocks (see color overleaf). As the tale is related in Genesis, Laban, who owned the sheep, told Jacob he would be paid for tending them with any lambs born spotted or speckled, and Jacob's method of inducing speckled progeny was to lay peeled...
...weeks ago at Sun Valley, she did it again, another triple, including a 2.97-sec. downhill win over another French star, Isabelle Mir...
...some time. And last week, pressing extra hard before the home folks at Rossland, Nancy caught a ski tip on a gate and fell in the sla lom. Even so, she still held a commanding lead in the battle for the World Cup, with 176 points to 150 for Mir and 128 for Goitschel...
...long run, the other technique of "automatist" surrealism proved more revolutionary and durable. As practiced by Joan Miro, André Masson, Max Ernst and Roberto Matta, automatism relied on the unconscious to direct the pen, pencil, brush or tube of glue. "Rather than setting out to paint something," said Miró, "I begin, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself." Landscape with Rooster, one of a dozen outsize, uninhibited Mirós on display, illustrates the antic, fanciful contours that result...