Word: miro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picasso's two little cubist paintings have little more than the master's signature to recommend them. Their color has no vitality or subtlety and the jumped compositions, especially that of the cramped Bottle and Glass, exemplifies Picasso's carelessness at its most annoying. Carelessness, indeed, sloppiness blemishes a Miro pastel, titled, for no readily apparent reason, Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror. A mysterious and evocative oil painting of his, Composition, done in 1925, has a flow and easiness to it that the other work so painfully lacked...
This dominance of central theme should perhaps have been muted. Wright himself should perhaps have been muted, in that his power as an artist makes lesser artists pale. Though Modigliani and Miro may stand up in the Guggenheim Museum, though Leonardo would appear well there, products of lesser painters might be at greater advantage elsewhere...
There was tall, lithe Miro Slovak, a onetime pilot for the Red-run Czechoslovakian Airlines, who hit the headlines in 1953 when he commandeered a C-47 and flew to asylum in West Germany. Between races, Slovak is now a crop duster. And there was Bill Muncey, 30, onetime professional hockey player. In 1955 Muncey was so infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both...
...Poet-Painter William Morris. 28. who can make with both the words and the brushes. "If Jack Kerouac is the prose writer of the Beat Generation, I am its visual chronicler," boasts Morris. As a painter, Los Angeles-born Morris once rode a motor scooter from Barcelona ("I cleaned Miro's studio") to Denmark (where he painted canvases with his bare feet), has kept a partial record of 25 exhibitions and eight museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years you will be a poet") and William Carlos...
...twenty-five.) The opus is a single tableau consisting of six larger-than-life-size bronzes, cast of wood and miscellaneous materials. The figures are drastically simplified forms and they compose a play of varied rhythms in which the element of surprise is no small factor--a technique Miro uses to the hilt...