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When Painter Joan Miró, 68 - short, round-faced and seemingly as placid as a Buddha-withdrew from France to his studio home on Majorca five years ago, an uneasy lethargy settled over him. He imposed "a silence on myself. A fast." Instead of painting, he sat and thought. Then, two years ago, catastrophe." Systematically he tore up scores of paintings that he had done on cardboard, obliterated nearly a hundred done on canvas-an act roughly equivalent to burning up $3,000,000. "The paintings uttered soft cries when they saw I was destroying them," sighs Mir...
Last week the new Miró paintings were on view in Paris' Galerie Maeght-to mixed critical reception. For the most part, the childlike "signs," the brilliant and charming fantasies were gone. In their place were some small paintings on burlap, priced as high as $16,000, which consisted of little more than a few black forms swimming through solid color. There was a whirling constellation, a burning sun-shape inside an amoeba-like splash, a few nebulous and milky canvases that were each rather uncertainly called "Painting...
...Nervous. In five versions of Seated Woman, the woman hardly made an appearance at all. In many canvases the once meticulous Miró had left hairs from his brushes imbedded in the paint. What did all this splatter and splutter mean? Plainly, the new Miró was mad at the world, and he was letting his emotions boil over. "I used crayon," says he of some thin colored lines in one painting, "because it was more nervous, Pam! Pam! Pam! Pam! Like a knife!" Commented the weekly France-Observateur sadly: "Disappointed spirits will conclude that this is not Mir...
...Just how Miró manages to get so roiled up is something of a mystery, for his own life remains as methodical as an engineer's blueprint. He wakes at 5, meditates for a while, and then, in measured steps, proceeds to his white studio, designed by U.S. Architect (and fellow Catalonian) José Luis Sert. There, surrounded by favorite shapes and objects-a rotting rudder, a rusting anchor, a decaying sheet of metal, bits of pottery, and some toy turtles-he contemplates for about an hour. "By this time," says he, "I am filled with fury...
...still hearing from all over about TIME'S chillingly comprehensive coverage of the Cuban disaster-the Miró Cardona cover story (April 28) and related stories in The Nation. Aside from the letters we've received, the stories have obviously been the impetus for questions in Congress and the source of many subsequent accounts by reporters and newscasters (who last week reported the capture by Castro's forces of General Manuel Artime, the controversial young exile whom TIME introduced as the active leader of the invasion). CBS Correspondent Charles Collingwood, on his viewing the press TV show...