Word: miro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like organic spongy life of the sea or the weird shapes that bubble and float before our half-closed eyes in bright sunlight, the forms of Joan Miro drift across his canvasses. For their simplicity, the crescents, spots and silhouettes have been called no form at all but only elements--embryos of form like "graffati that children scratch on walls" or that "prehistoric man engraved in caves...
...more sedentary, the editorial board offers an opportunity to analyze anything from the FEPC to the HAA, to discuss Miro Painting or the decline of Harvardmanship...
Others of the splendid handful were a large still life by Joan Miro (donated by Armand G. Erpf), far harsher than the later, playful abstractions that made his fame, and a cheesecloth-and-plaster picture by Paul Klee (donated by Stanley Resor) entitled The Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber. Klee's painted maze symbolized the singer by her initials alone, and her voice by the liltingly arranged vowels...
...constructivist sculptors who have also integrated science and aesthetics, Calder is not primarily concerned with industrial or mechanical shapes. His design, as the titles "Spider" and "Big Worm--Little Worm" suggest, stems from nature. Beyond direct observation of natural phenomena the biological shapes of Arp and especially Miro have influenced...
There, by dispensing favors, Miró could grow wealthy. Guizado accepted, said Miro; the Vice President, a wealthy contractor, had recently suffered business reverses and needed to rebuild his own bankroll...