Word: miro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JEWISH-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. Fifty drawings of Arshile Gorky span his career from the early portraits, through an esthetic pilgrimage that visited Cezanne, Picasso, Miro and others, to the time when his imagination was ripe and he became in turn an influence on other artists. Through June...
...Spoleto, created for the 1962 Spoleto Festival, weighs 30 tons, looms 59 ft. high, and could only be assembled for the festival with the help of shipyard cranes in Genoa. Calder's first, more sylphlike stabile was created in 1931 when he was absorbing surrealism from Joan Miro and Jean Arp. From them he learned the art of expressing the forms of living things in the context and materials of the machine age. As the stabiles' dimensions have grown more mammoth, so have their artistic strength and lean, linear elegance...
While the exhibition does not pretend to be a comprehensive survey of Surrealist and Fantastic art, virtually every important Surrealist artist is included. Arp, Chagall, de Chirico, Dali, Ernst, Klee, and Miro are each represented by a number of paintings; several of these works are well-known and most are characteristic of each artist's particular development...
...exhibit shows the variety of Max Ernst's works. "The Forest" (1926) and "Nature at Day-break" (1938), both oils rich and stifling in their intensity, are particularly striking. Joan Miro's bright colors and large simplified forms, distorted to his purposes, blossom in the famous "Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird" (1926), the large "Landscape" (1927), and another highpoint of the exhibition, "Portrait of a Lady...
John B. Davidson '65, chairman of the student committee that is planning the show, said yesterday that a similar exhibition at the Fogg several years ago filled five galleries with originals by Miro, Rousult, and Renoir, among others...