Word: miro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miro. At one of the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibitions three years ago people stopped in front of a small black canvas entitled "Dog Barking at the Moon." On the right, in strange iridescent colors, was something that might be a dog. Above it was another shape that might be a moon. On the left there was definitely a ladder, shooting up into infinity. As a work of art it only annoyed most people. Yet last summer that same canvas, now the proud possession of an eminent Union Club member, Mr. Albert Eugene Gallatin, was listed...
...earliest Surrealistes, in advance of the movement proper, were Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernest, Paul Klee, and Joan Miro. Chirico's early neo-classic landscapes were more truly landscapes, for the shadows were thrown towards the sun, the sky was perhaps green, and a more than natural poignancy was continually attested by these imperceptible distortions. Besides being a "Surrealiste" Chirico was a master of painting, and continued painting until past the inception of the full-fledged school. Max Ernest, independent of the school, matures day by day in his own inimitable lyricism. The verdict of time will undoubtedly confirm...