The Shock of the NewAn illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art, and explains why the movement is near its end. |
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... Miró's art seemed to fulfil this idea . But there was nothing naïve about it . Miró was a Catalan , and Barcelona , the capital of Catalonia , had become one of the junctions of European modernism when Miró was a little boy indeed , it ...
... Miró's art seemed to fulfil this idea . But there was nothing naïve about it . Miró was a Catalan , and Barcelona , the capital of Catalonia , had become one of the junctions of European modernism when Miró was a little boy indeed , it ...
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Robert Hughes. ttet JOUR Miro's paintings of 1924-7 worked at an almost frenzied pitch. 372337 , 158 Joan Miró The Tilled Field 1923-4 Oil on canvas 26 × 36 ins Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York 355 24 A EC 157 Joan Miró The Farm ...
Robert Hughes. ttet JOUR Miro's paintings of 1924-7 worked at an almost frenzied pitch. 372337 , 158 Joan Miró The Tilled Field 1923-4 Oil on canvas 26 × 36 ins Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York 355 24 A EC 157 Joan Miró The Farm ...
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... Miro's , expressed with a sharp , quizzical line that springs and chirrups like a grasshopper in Catalan dust , is a matter of detail and observation : getting the nose in and keeping it there . ( The word " miró , " one is reminded ...
... Miro's , expressed with a sharp , quizzical line that springs and chirrups like a grasshopper in Catalan dust , is a matter of detail and observation : getting the nose in and keeping it there . ( The word " miró , " one is reminded ...
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