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Combining a fine collection of both men's work with equally excellent representatives of two other notable Spanish moderns, Joan Miro and Juan Gris, the present exhibition at Boston's Institute of Modern Art is not only this season's most colorful and significant showing but also one which will attract many who are not regular gallery-goers...
...seems to this reviewer that most of those who attend the showing will come to see the Dalis and emerge praising Picasso or Miro, for despite the nineteen examples of his work displayed, the eccentric Catalonian comes out low man. Contrasted with the incomparable originality and vigor of Picasso, the earthy, humorous gaiety of Miro, and the quiet perfection of Gris, Dali's fantastic, delicately-detailed creations seem forced, superficial, and at times rather cheap...
Disclaiming abstractionism and surrealism alike, Joan Miro paints gaily-colored fantasies, filled with cavorting, infectiously-jovial organisms, figures in a symbolism which is both intensely personal and completely charming. As a young man, Miro was influenced by the Dadaists, and he has been frequently accepted as a surrealist, although the simplicity and individuality of his idiom far transcends surrealism...
...doubt the forces of progress were on Professor Angold's side., Besides, the British gypsies were more assimilated than most other gypsy stocks. But progress and assimilation might have a stiff tussle with a people which still preserved its folk wisdom in a six-line catechism: Miro dado, soskei shan creminor kaired? (My father, why were worms made?) Miro chabo, that puo-baulor might jib by hailing lende. (My son, that moles might live by eating them.) Miro dado, soskei shan puvo-baulor kaired? (My father, why were moles made?) Miro chabo, that tute ta mande might...
...second floor crammed with modern paintings, owned and loaned. Prize of the exhibit (which included practically every modern artist of note from Degas to Miro): Pablo Picasso's Woman Seated before a Mirror...