Word: miro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surréalisme is a complicated Freudian school of art which numbers among its aims an attempt to express the subconscious by portraying distortions of familiar objects. Its leaders are Joan Miro and Salvador Dali who this week in Manhattan's Julien Levy Gallery exhibited his latest works. He had drawn people with roses for eyes, lamb chops for lips, an aged man with a lobster on his head, a melting grand piano. Claiming to be "obsessed" with Millet's Angelus, he showed variants of the motif with wheel-headed gleaners picking up forks and a poached...
...Joan Miro, 40, was born in Barcelona, studied painting in his native city. That Artist Miro should get a better sense of shape and volume in his painting, his instructor made him draw from objects that he could only touch, blindfolded. About 15 years ago Joan Miro first appeared in the Paris art world, and in 1925 headed the most obscure group of modernists, the Surrealists. His early canvases were obscure enough, strange blobs of color against neutral backgrounds cut across by careening black lines...
...Artist Miro is still an abstract painter more interested in getting emotions on canvas than creating recognizable designs. But in late years critics, hardened to modernists, have come to realize that he is also a serious, thoughtful painter with a vast grasp of the technique of his craft and an uncanny sense of color. His strange de signs have the quality of holding attention and spurring imagination which, in its essence, is the final aim of surrealism. Wrote conservative Critic Henry McBride last week...
...Joan Miro is a sincere and gifted artist. . . . Miro's way with color is first class, in fact he is about the most thrilling colorist in the world today. ... In the new compositions facts are almost dispensed with completely. There remains however a color so lovely that the pure in heart must yearn to employ...
Speicher. Poles apart are Joan Miro and Eugene Speicher who last week gave his first exhibition in five years at Manhattan's Rehn Galleries. With his feet firmly on the ancient tradition of graphic arts, Artist Speicher has grown firmer in his draughtsmanship, more sure of what he wants to say with each passing year. In 1929 he seemed an able, uninspired follower of the late great George Wesley Bellows, without the latter's vivid interest in living problems. In 1934, as in 1929, Eugene Speicher remains wrapped in the penciled brows of his statuesque beauties, though technically...