Word: miro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Works donated by collectors and by the artists themselves for the auction represented such artists as Joan Miro whose child-like graphic form went for $450. George Rickey whose kinetic sculpture of coiled wires sold for $1100, and Richard Anuskiewicz whose optical color patterns of acrylic on board brought $2350. Harvard's artists were represented by Toshi Katayama's silkscreen from the Kyoto Series selling for $175 and a color polaroid of toys and toothbrush by photographer Fred Brink...
...Kandinsky, all objects were endowed with life (an animistic idea that Miro later developed brilliantly). This aliveness, as English Critic Paul Overy put it in a recent study of Kandinsky, "interacted with our own aliveness, thus creating reality." One can feel its pressure, vivid and tremulous, in the darting lines and patches of color beneath which a landscape is forming in No. 160b. (Improvisation 28), 1912, no less than in the cooler, more architectural forms of the great demonstration pieces, like Composition 8, No. 260, 1923, painted after he moved to the Bauhaus in Weimar to teach...
...example, Ernest Trova's images of falling men--symbolic protruding bellies on smooth, molded gold forms--are pleasing rhythmically but do little to encourage the viewer's further exploration. In contrast to Trova's rather redundant imagery, are such masterpieces as Picasso's Cubist Portrait of Wilhem Uhde, Miro's playful, surrealistic compositions, Giacommetti's unique delineation of space in portraits, and the Russian, Naum Gabo's eliptical construction of string and plastic...
...Joan Miro plays with curves and lines more as writing than as contours of space, but his calligraphy does not deny the spatial qualities of linear forms. His Woman In the Night provides the viewer with the sensation of being watched by a three-eyed, large-footed smiling female form, whose physical balance is as precarious as the barbell forms floating and swinging around her. Done on a white background with black objects, the work recalls the Japanese brushpainting and calligraphy that influenced many of the surrealist artists. The seducing elements of Miro's works are the imaginative and playful...
...shell teeth, on a house wall in Sitka? In the same way, there are painted buckskin coats and drums in the Whitney whose spontaneous, eccentric beauty of drawing is little short of breathtaking, while the bizarre and untrammeled inventiveness of some Eskimo masks would have been the envy of Miro or Picasso...