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Spain has bred more than its share of eminent modern artists, among them Picasso, Joán Miró, Juan Gris and Salvador Dali. But most of them have hotfooted it across the border to France almost as soon as they were old enough to carry their own easels. The artists who stayed behind seemingly found it difficult to forget Spain's great artistic past, and followed, without distinction, the traditions of El Greco, Velasquez and Goya...
...Gallery-lined 57th Street and its environs offered bronzes by Britain's Henry Moore (at the Buchholz), Grandma Moses' bucolic pleasantries (at the St. Etienne), happy bloops and squiggles by Spain's Joán Miró (at the Pierre Matisse), a fine collection of Ming porcelains (at the Komor), and antiseptic semi-abstractions by Charles Sheeler (at the Downtown). The esoteric fringe, always as long as an Easter bunny's ears, had a bright item: luminescent pictures by Marie Menken (at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery), which were guaranteed to be visible even in rooms...
...Miró himself, little, chubby and dapper, sports monogrammed shirts and a calm, businesslike air. "I lead a very regular, normal life," he told a reporter, "I work every day from 6 a.m. to nightfall. At noon, before lunch, I take half an hour's physical exercise." After a reflective pause he added: "Outwardly I am perfectly calm, but internally I'm boiling...
...Miró shuttles between two studios, a small one in Paris' Rue de Téhéran and a big one in Barcelona. At week's end he dashed back to Spain to continue work on an 18-by-17-ft. mural for Harvard University's new graduate center. The mural, he says hopefully, "will enable me to establish close contact with the students, the young men of tomorrow. It is better to influence the young generation than to try to convert stubborn...
Will the Harvard mural turn out as abstract as his other works? "I have never," Joán Miró indignantly replies, "painted an abstract thing in all my life...