Word: miro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real thing check geo herriman s 20s illustrations which seemed to sing hello dali or miro miro on the wall
...Civil War in Spain ground grimly on, the great names of Spanish art assembled a show at the International Exposition in Paris to demonstrate their solidarity with the beleaguered republic. Picasso was represented by Guernica, his agonized portrayal of a small town obliterated by German dive bombers. From Miro came The Reaper, a ferocious antiwar mural that has since been lost. Towering above the other works in the Spanish pavilion was a graceful, 41-ft.-high stalk of flowing concrete, by a lanky Castilian sculptor who had been commissioned by the Loyalist government in Madrid to cast his own version...
...childhood serve as a stark backdrop for phantom figures hovering on the landscape. His sculpture frequently shows a more whimsical turn, with animals and even inanimate objects eloquently taking on human personalities, as in "Bull" or "The Root Hunter." Stylistically, Sanchez is obviously of the generation of Dali, Miro and Picasso-but with a small difference. Far more than his contemporaries, he kept a firm foot, however far away he was, on the good Spanish earth...
Although its happy theme was particularly inappropriate after last week's disaster in downtown Osaka (see THE WORLD), the Japanese Gas Association's pavilion has been a favorite of the crowds. In addition to its collection of amusing works by Joan Miro, it has a continuous screen showing of skits by a Japanese comedy team called the Crazy Cats. In Japan's highly popular Steel Pavilion, 1,300 loudspeakers emit a cacophonic music. Visitors are also transfixed by the mechanized Noguchi fountains in the Pond of Dreams, especially by Comet, which rises...