Word: montroig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sights had fueled his imagination all his life. Most great art is rooted in provinciality, and Miró's was no exception. He was a city boy, a goldsmith's son, but he spent part of his youth on the farm that his parents owned at Montroig. Its white, cracked walls, dusty earth and heatstruck furrows-commemorated in lunar detail in The Farm, 1921-22-were the frame of an immense repertory of images that constituted the motifs of his art: hairs and plants, chickens and cats and snails, the moon and the dog howling at it, galumphing...