Word: thos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...childish here but, at the same time, you feel almost as if the artist was playing a rather bizarre joke on his audience. He presents shapes and figures that are not the abstractions they appear to be, but symbols. And what you, as an individual viewer, see in thos symbols is as much an indication of your own psychological state as of the artist's. Miro has insisted that a form is "always a sign of something," yet, viewing these works, one is never quite sure whether the artist is giving away signs about himself or somehow gleefully declaring...
...Thos accepting this objective implicitly accept the likely corollary: A South Vietnamese government dominated by the National Liberation Front. In the long run, such a government may be in the best interests of the South Vietnamese; it is in any case infinitely, preferable to a continuation of the present...