Word: miro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favorite image) were seen, if at all, as a mere prelude to his abstract work. They did not look as "interesting" as the early work of his colleagues because Kline was the only abstract expressionist not touched by surrealism. He painted as though he had never seen a Miro. And so Franz Josef Kline, named by his Pennsylvania saloonkeeper father after the Austrian Emperor, is mainly remembered for a decade's worth of paintings: the stark abstractions, composed of thick bars, props and vectors of black on a white ground, that he made in New York after 1950. Their iconic...
Dominique Bozo, the museum's director, was able to choose from the Picassos the artist had hoarded for himself. In addition, he was given paintings from Picasso's private collection, by such artists as Matisse, Renoir and Miro. As a result of Bozo's freedom to make his own selections, the museum admirably represents almost all major phases of a protean career. Yet there are a few gaps. Picasso was a Spaniard, and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona has most of his very early works. Madrid has the Guernica, which found refuge in the Museum of Modern Art during Francisco...
...broader trends in women's wear is long and clinging cotton and knit sweaters that give the outlines but not the details. The winner in my knit-picking contest is Adrenne Vittadini's line of sweaters that includes liberal quotations from modern artists like Klee, Miro, and Picasso; if you can't great art, at least you can wear...
Grade-school children decorated place mats for the official birthday dinner. One contributor had drawn the yellow line down the middle of Main Street in an oblique, Miro-like style, an imaginative effort to contain its unwieldy width, its absence of definition by such amenities as regular curbs, trees or design coherence. Another, apparently in a very early grade, drew a psychic space showing the hero of the day surrounded by pictures labeled Minnesota, Pigout, The Dude, Breakdance, Camper--and a list of the National Football League teams...
...makes a less convincing bow in one or two pieces) is filtered through quite a lot of art history, from Mini to the ornery, meticulously crafted constructions of the late H.C. Westermann. His main weakness is a penchant for cockeyed whimsy, which seems to be an inexpert deduction from Miro. But this hardly matters beside the strength of Surls' best work. Notably Working in the Garden, 1981, the massive root system of an oak dug from the ground, seasoned, and then equipped with a demented spiral wooden "cloud" on top - a whirling dust-devil of some sort, studded with...