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Around and About: Nov. 3-15, at the Nielsen Gallery, 179 Newberry St. An exhibition of their permanent collection of 20th Century master prints and drawings, including works by Miro, Moore, Marini, Braque and Le Corbusier...
This contrast between precise objects, minuscule in size, and the limit less field across which they pullulate is central to Miró, and it corresponds to the fundamental experience of his vision. Even when Miro is at his most abstract, therefore, one is constantly reminded that his name, in Spanish, means...
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...
...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...