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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miro, in the U.S. for the first time, had left his farm in Tarragona, Spain, to paint a 30-foot mural for a Cincinnati restaurant (which will also display a teetering "mobile" by Sculptor Alexander Calder). Manhattan exhilarates Miro, and he expects it to give his art more oomph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between the Eyes | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...start to paint in my old age?, well to tell the truth, I had neuritus and artheritus so bad I could, do but little work, but had to keep busy to pass the time away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandma Explains | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...paint? well first I get a frame, then I saw my masonite to fit. ... Now it is ready for the scene, what ever the mind may produce, A land scape picture, an Old Bridge a Dream or a summer or winter scene, Childhoods memory, what everone fancys, But always somethings pleasing and Cheerful and I like bright colors and activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandma Explains | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...renaissance," he wrote, "took place about three years ago. ... I was too ill to work and was admiring my view from the porch; the incoming tide, the crimson and orange and gold of the sunset, the delicate nuances . . . when suddenly, nature ceased to be nature and became a wet painting. This sensation was so real, that when a sea gull suddenly soared across my vision, I exclaimed, 'The fool! Its lovely white wings will be smeared with paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Like Building a Campfire | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...finally Bali. He had never heard of Bali, went there only because he happend to miss the boat to Borneo. But Bali held Sterne for two years, and he can still remember much of it in detail simply by closing his eyes. At first Sterne felt no desire to paint there ("It was art"), but the paintings he brought back with him helped to make Bali a dreamer's byword across the U.S. He feels sure that tourists have ruined the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Like Building a Campfire | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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