Word: miro
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...great distinction of Hughes' approach is that he can move, commandingly, from a Miro canvas to transvestite hookers in the street without missing a beat -- and bring to both the same kind of rigorous attention and full-bodied sensibility. Here is a critic who can put Joe Sixpack and Jacques Derrida in the same sentence. And if at times the sheer weight of detail may almost be dizzying to a newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down...
...Winter Games, in any case, have always been the Cinderella Games, the odd Games out; a poor sister, it sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which...
...interrupted work of imagination be completed decades after its creator is gone? In the years since Gaudi's death in 1926, such admirers as architects Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius and artists Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies have demanded a halt to construction, which has been under way in fits and starts since 1882. Continuing to work on the building, contends architect Josep Anton Acebillo, is "like adding arms to the Venus de Milo." Nonetheless, the building continues to be financed privately -- and enthusiastically -- by contributors ranging from Catalan nationalists to Japanese businessmen to American tourists...
...idea that "low" sources somehow debase the integrity of "high" art is moonshine, of course. It always has been: Goya's Caprichos, for instance, draw heavily on folk proverbs, crude popular drama and 18th century (mainly English) caricature. Miro was inspired by comic strips and folk scatology. And Philip Guston in the 1970s was able to attain his measure of greatness as a tragic painter only through a free, uncondescending use of motifs from George Herriman's great strip Krazy Kat and the underground comics of Robert Crumb. Nor can MOMA be accused of pandering to mass taste by exhibiting...
...virtual icon of national identity: "Consider the woman in Sunyer's Pastoral -- she is the embodiment of the landscape; she . . . is not there by chance: she is destiny." It was out of that conservatism -- the cult of the parental farmhouse as the model of Catalan society -- that Joan Miro (before he reacted into surrealism) created his detailed and almost fanatically ordered images of life on his father's property at Montroig, whose climax is The Farm, 1921-22. This is the first exhibition to give Catalan Noucentisme its due place in the general pattern of modern art, and for that...