Word: miro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Greene (professor of philosophy at Yale): "May I make a comment? . . . Miro expresses a kind of infantilism . . . I happen to like children. But I think there is a limit to how much time I want to spend in conversation with a one-year...
...From Trieste this week the Associated Press reported that a Yugoslav priest, Father Miro Bulesich, was beheaded when he tried to ward off a knife-brandishing mob that attacked and seriously wounded Msgr. Giacomo Ukmar, a Vatican prelate, after a ceremony at a church in Lanische, Venezia Giulia. Meanwhile, authorities found the mutilated body of a third Roman Catholic priest, bearing the "marks of horrible torture...
Besides witches, whirligigs and a nine-foot Totem of Religion made out of three old railroad ties, the show included some 125 paintings, photographs and wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
Anyone but the incorrigibly stuffy would certainly find Miro a delight to the eye, even if some would shy at calling his work great. Miro himself, who should know, does not consider his art abstract, as the critics think. "As a matter of fact," he insists, "I am attaching more and more importance to the subject matter of my work. To me it seems vital that a rich and robust theme should be present to give the spectator an immediate blow between the eyes...
Like his late, great grandfather, Artist Lucian Freud is suspicious of reticence. Grandfather Sigmund thought it frequently concealed all manner of ugly things; grandson Lucian, like Joan Miro (see above), thinks it inhibits...