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...Miro. At one of the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibitions three years ago people stopped in front of a small black canvas entitled "Dog Barking at the Moon." On the right, in strange iridescent colors, was something that might be a dog. Above it was another shape that might be a moon. On the left there was definitely a ladder, shooting up into infinity. As a work of art it only annoyed most people. Yet last summer that same canvas, now the proud possession of an eminent Union Club member, Mr. Albert Eugene Gallatin, was listed...
...Joan Miro, 40, was born in Barcelona, studied painting in his native city. That Artist Miro should get a better sense of shape and volume in his painting, his instructor made him draw from objects that he could only touch, blindfolded. About 15 years ago Joan Miro first appeared in the Paris art world, and in 1925 headed the most obscure group of modernists, the Surrealists. His early canvases were obscure enough, strange blobs of color against neutral backgrounds cut across by careening black lines...
...Artist Miro is still an abstract painter more interested in getting emotions on canvas than creating recognizable designs. But in late years critics, hardened to modernists, have come to realize that he is also a serious, thoughtful painter with a vast grasp of the technique of his craft and an uncanny sense of color. His strange de signs have the quality of holding attention and spurring imagination which, in its essence, is the final aim of surrealism. Wrote conservative Critic Henry McBride last week...
...Joan Miro is a sincere and gifted artist. . . . Miro's way with color is first class, in fact he is about the most thrilling colorist in the world today. ... In the new compositions facts are almost dispensed with completely. There remains however a color so lovely that the pure in heart must yearn to employ...
...earliest Surrealistes, in advance of the movement proper, were Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernest, Paul Klee, and Joan Miro. Chirico's early neo-classic landscapes were more truly landscapes, for the shadows were thrown towards the sun, the sky was perhaps green, and a more than natural poignancy was continually attested by these imperceptible distortions. Besides being a "Surrealiste" Chirico was a master of painting, and continued painting until past the inception of the full-fledged school. Max Ernest, independent of the school, matures day by day in his own inimitable lyricism. The verdict of time will undoubtedly confirm...