Word: tarragona
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when in Barcelona, of assuming you're in Spain: The locals in the enchanting Mediterranean coastal city, and the triangle-shaped territory around it, cite Catalan as their national identity. In conversations across the spectrum - young and old, leftist and right-wing, gay and straight, a retired couple near Tarragona and a Moroccan immigrant in Vic - the upcoming Spanish elections are discussed as if they're taking place in a foreign country. "For Catalonia, it is better if?" was how the typical response began. Here, road signs and restaurant menus are written in Catalan. It's also the language...
...show's title is borrowed from a 1925 painting; the world being born was Miró's own, a unique galaxy of pictorial enchantment residing on the border between surrealism and abstraction. The show traces the young Miró's zigzagging path between his family farm in Montroig, near Tarragona, and the heady Paris art scene of the 1920s. Similarly, he zigzagged from earthy ochers, greens and browns to brilliant fantasy hues; from oil painting to collage and construction; and from works crowded with biomorphic creatures to watery cosmic spaces marked only by a floating line, a dot, a sphere...