Word: miro
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...Miro or Warhol in your dorm room? It may sound ludicrous, but, along with the basics: an e-mail account, membership to the MAC and access to Widener Library, every Harvard student has this opportunity. And it doesn't cost that much. For between $20 and $40 a year, the Fogg Art Museum rents prints, etchings, and woodcuts to students to hang in their rooms...
...look marvelous next to the new futon, over by the halogen lamp. Roommate 2: No, no, dear. You simply have no taste. It must have natural light. Roommate 3: That Rauschenberg is obviously from his late period, and isn't worth hanging. Now the contours in this Miro.... Nct only do you have the perfect excuse for such parlance, you impress friends and neighbors...
...obtained a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a private donor began a purchase fund. Today, the program supports itself by reinvesting profits earned from rental in insurance and new purchases. The works, which include pieces by many big-name artists, such as Warhol, Rauschenberg and Miro, as well as newer, more up-and-coming artists, are purchased by the Museum from the artists themselves, or from galleries or publishers...
...negligible designs in the way an earlier American stylist, Elie Nadelman, had responded to anonymous folk art. He found beauty and a sort of wry pathos in them, along with a disregarded but distinct sense of style. Lichtenstein wasn't the first artist to react to American comic strips. Miro is plausibly said to have been influenced by George Herriman's now classic Krazy Kat. Apart from Stuart Davis, however, he was the first American artist to do so, because American artists had always been rather ashamed of their own vernacular...
...their sameness. After a while, it isn't very interesting to be shown that just about anything can be turned into a Lichtenstein, congealed in his cryogenic style. There's none of the engaged imagination, the sense of a transforming mind at work, that one gets in, say, Miro's wild versions of a 17th century Dutch interior, down the road at the Museum of Modern Art. Lichtenstein's are clever and highly worked, but while acknowledging their wit and skill, you would rather be looking at the real origins of these pastiches. Civilized irony is a grace...