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(http://www.kreegermuseum.org/programs/concerts-master-classes) " wafted through DC's exquisite

Kreeger Museum (http://www.kreegermuseum.org/) April 21, a fitting musical celebration of the collection's masterpieces by Picasso and Miró.

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Guests listened to Catalan music in the Great Hall of the elegant home museum, designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson (http://www.kreegermuseum.org/about-us/architecture) , after viewing its exhibition "Joan Miró From The Collection of The Kreeger Museum (http://www.kreegermuseum.org/exhibitions/event/JOAN-MIR-From-the-Collection-of-The-KreegerMuseum-2012-04-10) ".

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It was "the most perfect night", to quote the concert's first piece, "Llibre D'amic" by Ernest Borrás, performed by baritone Gustavo Ahualli and pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo. Guitarist Giuliano Belotti and soprano Rosa Betancourt performed other works, including song cycles by award-winning composer and Juilliard teacher Ricardo Llorca, who attended the event. Belotti especially delighted in two familiar pieces, "Asturias" and "Cadiz" by Isaac Albeniz. The musical evening, co-sponsored by the Embassy of Spain (http://www.maec.es/en/Home/Paginas/HomeEN.aspx) and the New York Opera Society (http://www.newyorkoperasociety.com/) , honored the exhibition -- the first time all of the Kreeger’s

collection of Miró works have been displayed. They include "The Mallorca Suite", "Makimono", and "El Vol de l’Alosa" (The Flight of the Lark), Miró's illustrated book of works by 19 Mallorcan poets. Miró, born in Barcelona in 1893, lived on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca from 1940 until his death on Christmas 1983. "The Mallorca Suite" and "The Flight of the Lark" were bought by art collectors and philanthropists David and Carmen Kreeger in 1973 when they attended Miró’s 80th birthday celebration on the island. The Kreeger Museum (http://www.examiner.com/topic/kreeger-museum/articles) is believed to be the only US venue with all 36 images in the "The Mallorca Suite". Miró's illustrations for "The Flight of the Lark" special edition include a cloth box to hold it. One side of the box is black on blue, symbolizing the sea around Mallorca. The other side is black on red, symbolizing Spain. He also created a new lithograph for the unique edition. “I make no distinction between painting and poetry...I illustrate my canvases with poetic phrases and vice versa,” the self-taught artist once said. "Makimono", which took Miró five years to complete, is 36-feet by 16-inch raw silk, printed with lithographed and etched designs from Miró’s original wood and metal blocks. The multi-colored, joyous symbols partly signify Catalonia like its crimson, black and yellow flag, but mostly represent the artist's extraordinary imagination. David Kreeger bought "Makimono", including its incised and lacquered oak box, in 1965. Kreeger once said "I never bought art as an investment. I bought it for love and I was lucky. Art that embodies the creative spirit of men transcends the value of money." The collection includes many other 19th and 20th century masters such as Monet -- nine Monet paintings line the salon where the post-recital reception was held; Braque -- several compliment the

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Picassos in the 66-foot-long Great Hall; Renoir; Kandinsky; Chagall; Rodin; Henry Moore; David Smith; as well as African masks. Kreeger, the son of Russian immigrants, earned his way through Rutgers by playing the piano, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, worked as a government lawyer during FDR's New Deal, founded and headed GEICO, and became a pre-eminent contributor to the arts in Washington. A self-taught violinist, Kreeger enjoyed playing his Stradivarius, especially accompanying famed musicians including Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, and Mstislav Rostropovich. For more info: "Joan Miró From The Collection of The Kreeger Museum (http://www.kreegermuseum.org/exhibitions/event/JOAN-MIR-From-the-Collection-of-The-KreegerMuseum-2012-04-10) ", on view through July 31, The Kreeger Museum (http://www.kreegermuseum.org/) , www.kreegermuseum.org (http://www.kreegermuseum.org) ,

2401 Foxhall Road, NW, Washington, DC, 202-337-3050. Next concerts (http://www.kreegermuseum.org/programs/concerts-master-classes) , the 2012 June Chamber

Festival on June 8, 12, and 15. The museum has a twice-monthly "Conversations (http://www.kreegermuseum.org/programs/Conversations-at-The-Kreeger-Museum) " program of music

and art for individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and their caregivers. The Kreeger Gala (http://www.kreegermuseum.org/programs/gala) is on May 19. Ricardo Llorca is composer-in-

residence at New York Opera Society (http://www.newyorkoperasociety.com/) .

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National Gallery Of Art Taps José Andrés To Remake Garden Café Menu For Joan Miro Exhibition Posted: 04/16/2012 5:43 pm Updated: 04/18/2012 1:14 pm

WASHINGTON -- Chef José Andrés will give the National Gallery of Art's Garden Café a makeover starting in May. The NGA announced Monday that the acclaimed Spanish chef, who owns D.C. restaurants Jaleo, Zaytinya, Oyamel and Minibar and is the executive producer of the PBS show "Made in Spain," will add some new flavors to the menu at the museum's ground-level restaurant. It's all inspired by artist Joan Miró, who spent his formative years in and around Barcelona, the capital of Spain's Catalonia province. The NGA's "Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape" exhibition, featuring 120 paintings and other work, will start May 6 and will conclude on Aug. 12. José Andrés

Among Andrés' Miro-inspired menu items is escalivada catalana, a roasted vegetable dish, according to a NGA media advisory. The Garden Café has been recently featuring the cooking of Fiola chef Fabio Trabocchi, whose Italian menu selections were inspired by the "Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes" exhibition. Last year, Andrés began a collaboration with the National Archives on America Eats Tavern, a temporary restaurant that set up shop in the restaurant space that once was home to the chef's Café Atlantico, which closed last June. America Eats Tavern is set to close in July. ALSO ON HUFFPOST:

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Chef José Andrés Creates Garden Café Catalonia in Honor of Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape at the National Gallery of Art

Sopa freda de cireres de Santa Coloma de Cervelló (cold cherry and tomato soup), one of the dishes featured on the buffet created by Chef José Andrés for Garden Café Catalonia at the National Gallery of Art. Photo by Rob Shelley © National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Washington, DC—Inspired by Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, on view in the East Building from May 6 through August 12, 2012, award-winning Washingtonbased Chef José Andrés is transforming the menu in the Garden Café with signature Catalan dishes beginning May 1. Andrés—just named to the 2012 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world—spent his formative years in and around Barcelona, and is chef and owner of ThinkFoodGroup restaurants in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Miami. His restaurants include Jaleo, Zaytinya, Oyamel, minibar by josé andrés, and The Bazaar by José Andrés. Andrés is also the host and executive producer of the PBS culinary series Made in Spain. The Garden Café Catalonia menu is presented in partnership with Restaurant Associates and Executive Chef David Rogers at the National Gallery of Art.

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Garden Café Catalonia The sense of Catalan identity evident throughout the exhibition is also reflected in the Garden Café Catalonia. Andrés' pride in his native Spain and in the distinctive culinary traditions of the northeast province of Catalonia is highlighted in the Garden Café menu. He incorporates traditional Catalan flavors, combining sweet fruits and nuts with savory meats and vegetables, and features classic dishes such as escalivada catalana, the roasted vegetable dish which takes its name from the Catalan verb escalivar, to cook slowly near embers of a fire. À la carte selections inspired by the exhibition include empedrat de mongetes amb bacallà (white bean salad with vegetables and Catalan salt cod, $12.00), canelons de Sant Esteve (pork and chicken "canelons" with béchamel sauce, $14.50), and escalivada catalana (salad of roasted red pepper, eggplant, and onion, $14.50). Rounding out the meal is peres al vi amb gelat de vainilla (pears poached in red wine with vanilla ice cream, $8.00). Chef Andrés' buffet ($20.25) incorporates a variety of traditional Catalan fare, including rustic bread, empedrat de mongetes (white bean salad with vegetables, black olives, and tomato), sopa freda de cireres de Santa Coloma de Cervelló (cold cherry and tomato soup), samfaina (Catalan vegetable stew), xatonada (salad of frisée, preserved tuna, and romesco sauce), formatges amb anous i codony (Catalan cheese with Marcona almonds and quince marmalade), escalivada catalana (salad of roasted red pepper, eggplant, and onion), pollastre a la catalana (Catalan chicken stew with dried fruits and nuts), fricandó de galtes de vedella amb bolets (Catalan stew of beef cheeks and mushrooms), and for dessert crema catalana (caramelized Catalan custard). Recipe cards for selected dishes are offered to guests free of charge. White, red, and sparkling Catalan and Spanish wines have been carefully selected to complement the menu, along with beer (Estrella Damm, Barcelona, Spain) and specialty drinks, including red wine sangria, calimocho (ludovicus, cola, bitters), and clara (Estrella Damm, house-made lemonade, orange bitters). Juice, soda, and still or sparkling bottled water are available, as are coffee, espresso, and tea. Garden Café Catalonia is open Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 4:00 p.m. A preconcert menu of light fare, desserts, and beverages is offered from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays to accommodate visitors

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who attend the free Sunday evening concerts in the West Garden Court. One of the most distinctive dining spots in the nation's capital, the Garden Café features a 19thcentury French marble sculpture after Jacopo Sansovino, Bacchus and a Faun, and a fountain with Herbert Adams' bronze Girl with Water Lilies (model 1928). The Garden Café is located in the West Building near the entrance at 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. To make reservations for groups of eight or more, please contact the café manager at (202) 712-7454. For more information about the Gallery and its restaurants, visit www.nga.gov/dining Chef José Andrés Named Outstanding Chef by the James Beard Foundation in 2011, José Andrés is an internationally recognized culinary innovator, passionate advocate for food and hunger issues, author, educator, television personality and chef/owner of ThinkFoodGroup. He and his ThinkFoodGroup, with partner Rob Wilder, are the team responsible for Washington's renowned dining concepts minibar by josé andrés, Jaleo, Zaytinya, Oyamel, America Eats Tavern, and Pepe the food truck. Dining concepts in Los Angeles and Las Vegas include the celebrated Bazaar by José Andrés at the SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, Jaleo, China Poblano, and é by José Andrés at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Scheduled to open in 2012 are The Bazaar by José Andrés at the SLS South Beach Miami and a dining destination at the new Dorado Beach, Ritz Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico. Andrés can be seen on PBS as host and executive producer of Made in Spain. His cookbooks include Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America. For his efforts to promote his native country, Spain's Ministry of Culture recognized Andrés with the prestigious Order of Arts and Letter medallion, making him the first chef to receive this award presented by the Government of Spain. Andrés also teaches science and cooking at Harvard University. Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape May 6–August 12, 2012 Celebrated as one of the greatest modern artists, Miró (1893–1983) developed a visual language that reflected his vision and energy in a variety of styles across many media. Through some 120 works of art, this exhibition reveals the politically engaged side of Miró's work, including his passionate response to one of the most turbulent

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periods in European history as well as his sense of Spanish—specifically Catalan— identity. The exhibition was organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, and in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation. Additional support is provided by Buffy and William Cafritz. The Institut Ramon Llull is an exhibition sponsor in Washington and London. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. In-kind promotional support has been provided by Chef José Andrés of Jaléo and ThinkFoodGroup. ###

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General Information The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are at all times free to the public. They are located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, and are open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1. For information call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176, or visit the Gallery's Web site at www.nga.gov. Follow the Gallery on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NationalGalleryofArt and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ngadc. Visitors will be asked to present all carried items for inspection upon entering. Checkrooms are free of charge and located at each entrance. Luggage and other oversized bags must be presented at the 4th Street entrances to the East or West Building to permit x-ray screening and must be deposited in the checkrooms at those entrances. For the safety of visitors and the works of art, nothing may be carried into the Gallery on a visitor's back. Any bag or other items that cannot be carried reasonably and safely in some other manner must be left in the checkrooms. Items larger than 17 by 26 inches cannot be accepted by the Gallery or its checkrooms. For additional press information please call or send inquiries to: Press Office National Gallery of Art 2000B South Club Drive Landover, MD 20785 phone: (202) 842-6353 e-mail: pressinfo@nga.gov Deborah Ziska Chief of Press and Public Information (202) 842-6353 ds-ziska@nga.gov

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National Gallery of Art’s visitors will be able to taste the essence of Catalonia in the US capital Debuting May 1st and lasting until September, the US National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC will display a captivating art exhibition of flavors from Spain. Author: Rosa María González Lamas/©ICEX.

Just like years ago elBulli became an annex of art fair DOCUMENTA Kassel, this time Spanish Chef José Andrés will paint with imagination a fantastic gastronomic experience that will delineate on the plates of the Gallery’s Garden Café the vivid colors of the Catalan culinary tradition, transforming this culinary space into Garden Café Catalonia. The flavors added by the Spanish Chef emerge from the ladder of inspiration offered by Spanish art icon Joan Miró, whose forthcoming exhibit “The Ladder of Escape” will integrate the offer of the National Gallery of Art starting this May through next August. “Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape” features 120 works of art of one the greatest modern artists. The exhibition reveals the politically engaged side of the work of this Catalan artist, including his passionate response to a turbulent period of European history, and also his sense of Catalan and Spanish identity. The exhibition was organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, and in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington. José Andrés has contributed his recipes and time as in-kind promotional support to the exhibition. The creation of a special menu of Catalan dishes in honor of Miró seemed like a natural collaboration as Miró is a great modern artist who José Andrés has long admired. The chef and his culinary team including Jaleo’s head chef Ramón Martínez and Rubén García, head of R+D —who are both also from Catalonia— joined forces with the chefs at the NGA to create the menu. While the menu was created in collaboration with Jose Andrés and culinary team, the Garden Café is being run by Restaurant Associates. Although born in Asturias, José Andrés has spent many years in Catalonia, which has enabled him to incorporate traditional Catalan flavors into the menu, combining sweet fruits and nuts with savory meats and vegetables. Garden Café Catalonia will serve meals both buffet and à la carte style, the latter full-size entrées. The menu will debut on May 1st and will be in place until September, even after the exhibition is over. The buffet incorporates a variety of traditional Catalan fare, including rustic bread, empedrat de mongetes (White bean salad with vegetables, black olives, and tomato), sopa freda de cireres de Santa Coloma de Cervelló (Cold cherry and tomato soup), Samfaina (Traditional Catalan stew of vegetables), xatonada (Salad of frisée, preserved tuna, and romesco sauce), formatges amb anous i codony (Catalan cheese with Marcona almonds and quince marmalade), Escalivada catalana (Salad of roasted red pepper, eggplant, and onion), pollastre a la catalane (Traditional Catalan chicken stew with dried fruit and nuts), fricandó de galtes de vedella amb bolets (Traditional Catalan stew of beef cheeks and mushrooms), crema catalana (Traditional caramelized Catalan custard). Recipe cards for selected dishes will be offered to guests free of charge. À la carte selections inspired by the exhibition include empedrat de mongetes amb bacallà (white bean salad with vegetables and Catalan salt cod), canelons de Sant Esteve (pork and chicken "canelons" with béchamel sauce), and escalivada catalana (salad of roasted red pepper, eggplant, and onion). Rounding out the meal will be peres al vi amb gelat de vainilla (pears poached in red wine with vanilla ice cream). To complement the menu, the restaurant will have available a selection of white, red and sparkling wines from Spain and Catalonia, along with Estrella Dam beers. This is José Andrés’s second collaboration with the National Gallery of Art. In 2009, the chef and his culinary team customcreated a menu of signature Spanish dishes for pop-up Grand Café España, open over that year’s summer to celebrate the exhibitions Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life and The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain. Last year, Andrés began a collaboration with the National Archives on America Eats Tavern, another pop-up located in the restaurant space where once was the chef's Café Atlantico, which closed last June. Garden CaféCatalonia will open Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 4:00 p.m. A preconcert menu of light fare, desserts, and beverages is offered from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays to accommodate visitors who attend the free Sunday evening concerts in the West Garden Court. The Garden Café is located in the West Building near the entrance at 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. To make reservations for groups of eight or more, please contact the café manager at (202) 712-7454. For more information about the Gallery and its restaurants, visit www.nga.gov/dining

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Of the three great Spanish artists of the 20th century — Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) — the first is a recurring subject of National Gallery(/topics/national-gallery/) of Art exhibitions, with seven shows in the past three decades. But while Dali awaits his turn, beginning Sunday Miro gets some overdue attention from the National Gallery(/topics/national-gallery/) in “Joan Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) : The Ladder of Escape,” a major new exhibition of well over a hundred works spanning his long, productive life. In reality, labeling Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) as Spanish is a misnomer. He was born in 1893 in Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, the strongly nationalist northern province with its own identity, language and culture — and now its own autonomous government. And while Picasso (some 10 years Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) ’s senior) moved to Paris and — with significant exceptions — became detached from any national characteristics, Miro(/topics/joanmiro/) ’s emotional and creative point of reference remained firmly Catalan despite his own artist’s pilgrimage to

France(/topics/france/) from the 1920s to the outbreak of World War II. The National Gallery(/topics/national-gallery/) ’s Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) exhibit is an artist’s astonishing chronological journey through the major movements of modern art. Fauvism, cubism, dadaism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism — all are more or less easily identifiable, but invested with an obsessive, fantastic — and quite often disturbing — depiction of an inner universe expressed in a language of codes and symbols. The Catalan peasant of Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) ’s tributes to rural Catalonia becomes a stylized triangle representing the peasant’s traditional hat; his ubiquitous birds are shown merely as an eye, a wing, a beak; his women are little more than a few brush strokes and a parade of erotic female parts (one difference with his two iconic contemporaries was Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) ’s apparently monogamous domestic life; with him, it was all in the mind). And then there’s the ladder, which served Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) as a multipurpose metaphor that varied according to context. “The Escape Ladder” of the exhibition title was painted in 1940 following the artist’s hurried departure with his family from France(/topics/france/) in advance of the German occupation. Here, the ladder represents his escape from Nazi oppression, even if returning to Spain(/topics/spain/) meant living under the fascist regime of dictator Francisco Franco(/topics/francisco-franco/) . There are galleries in this impeccably displayed exhibition where the anger is as subtle as a car crash: Dogs barking at the moon, viciouslooking birds tearing at heaven knows what. This often grotesque, barely contained fury expresses what is, in fact, the underlying theme of the exhibition: what the catalog calls “Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) ’s sometimes uncomfortable confrontation with social and political concerns.” (/multimedia/image/20120503-181824-pic834448675jpg/) Enlarge Photo

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The exhibit’s portrayal of an artist passionately responsive to his era’s political convulsions represents something of a change from the conventional scholarly emphasis on Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) as a forefather of abstraction. The curators attempt to make their case by focusing on works from the years 1918-1925, when Catalonia set up an independent state, only to have it suppressed; 1934-1941, covering

the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and the start of World War II; and 1968-1975, a period of ultra-leftist terrorism in Europe. The case for the more politically engaged Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) appears circumstantial at best. More so, for example, than Picasso’s. There is no “Guernica” (1937) — the greatest history painting of the 20th century — to buttress the argument. Picasso’s powerful canvas was a response to the bombing in the Spanish Civil War of the Basque town of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes rehearsing the “blitzkrieg” tactics they later used in World War II. A daylong series of raids left the town in shambles and killed more than 1,600 civilians; and Picasso’s painting gained a monumental status as an antiwar symbol.

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What has been called Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) ’s “Guernica” is his “Still Life with Old Shoe” (1937), not a work on an epic scale but, rather, a mundane collection of everyday objects set against a background of flame and black shadow. Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) called them “tragic symbols of the period — the tragedy of a miserable crust of bread and an old shoe, an apple pierced by a cruel fork and a bottle that like a burning house, spread its flames across the entire surface of the canvas.” Picasso shunned his homeland throughout the long reign of the dictator. Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) went home to Spain(/topics/spain/) in 1939 and within two months had resumed work. He remained based there throughout the fascist regime, apparently without interference from its rigorous censorship. He signed no manifestos and joined no public protests. Instead, he channeled his anger through creation. Savage, grotesque faces, bared sharp teeth; his work is dark and unrelenting. In 1944, the Brazilian consul smuggled to New York seven of Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) ’s “Constellation” series, and the Spanish artist’s work was shown in the United States for the first time, gaining considerable attention. Begun in France(/topics/france/) and finished in Spain(/topics/spain/) in 1941, these 23 gouaches on paper are densely crowded with numerous black triangles and other geometric shapes seemingly in random order. Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) would say in later interviews that the effort of producing such intricate designs was his escape from the tensions of the time. By the 1960s, still living uncomfortably if not precariously under Franco(/topics/francisco-franco/) ’s iron fist, Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) had created a much bolder, more ferocious style. He daubed paint with his fingers, hurled paint at the canvas, painted on the floor, and later burned and slashed the canvas. By the time we reach the graphic pyrotechnics of his lithographs covering an entire gallery wall, we are a long way from the almost linear conventionality of “The Farm” (1921-22), a painting of the family farm in the mountain village of Mont Roig. In this early Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) masterpiece, which opens the show, the artist’s close attention to detail finds expression in a picture that’s crowded with birds, chickens, a donkey working a corn-mill, twigs on the ground and the kitchen sink. “The Farm,” once owned by Ernest Hemingway and now in the National Gallery(/topics/national-gallery/) ’s permanent collection, is one of the very few works in the exhibition that shows Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) as an almost conventional artist. One problem with Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) is that once seen, the symbols, squiggles, and ectoplasmic blobs that sprang from his creative imagination appear easy to imitate. One London critic called them graffiti for grown-ups. The one-line plus big blob works of his later life (he died on Christmas Day 1983) add little to the distinction of a career marked by radical changes of scale and style. It is this ceaseless self-reinvention that prevents the array of 150 or so works on exhibit from seeming repetitive: It may not be pretty, but it’s addictive. WHAT: “Joan Miro(/topics/joan-miro/) : The Ladder of Escape”

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Spanish Princess Visits Miro Exhibit in Washington WASHINGTON – Spain’s Princess Cristina received a personal guided tour of the “Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape” exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The princess viewed the extensive exhibition of 120 works by Spain’s most politically combative painter, although the press was only allowed to witness her arrival at the exhibit hall and her contemplation of Miro’s main work on display, “La granja.” The youngest child of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia listened to the explanation that exhibition curator Harry Cooper gave concerning the painting, which reflects the origins of the Catalonian painter and summarizes the basic features of his career. The collection places emphasis on the most politically combative facet of the painter, who was critical of the convulsions in Spain in the 1930s and ‘40s, and also focuses on his Catalonian roots and his recognition of that sometimes-oppressed culture. Princess Cristina made her visit after hours on Wednesday, accompanied by the charge d’affaires at Spain’s embassy in Washington, Juan Manuel Molina, and Andrew Davis, the representative of the Catalonian delegation in the United States. The princess made her visit to view Miro’s work prior to a gala dinner offered by the National Gallery of Art to invited guests from the city’s cultural and social spheres. Princess Cristina has been returning gradually to Washington’s social scene after her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, was accused of involvement in a corruption case. Queen Sofia made a brief visit to Washington in late April to spend several days with Cristina and her grandchildren on the occasion of Miguel Urdangarin y Borbon’s 10th birthday. EFE

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Joan Miró The Farm, 1921-1922 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mary Hemingway © 2012 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris There are a lot of moving parts to the exhibition Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape, an international loan show organized by the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Tate Modern, London; and the National Gallery of Art (now at the latter venue for its final showing until the 12th August 2012). While not claiming to be a retrospective, it functions like one, comprising works spanning his entire career. The title proclaims its intent to be a show about the artist’s social and political concerns. And ultimately, as I see it, it serves well as an exploration of artistic and cultural identity. It succeeds on all those levels and it was especially providential as it paired—briefly—with the recently closed early Picasso drawings show. For those lucky few who saw both at once on the sole overlapping day (the 6th May), this was an extraordinary opportunity to examine two Spanish artists, contemporaries who were extremely different, but both of whom fiercely identified as Catalan (although Picasso moved to Barcelona only at the age of 13) and were their most Spanish during their respective French sojourns. Furthermore, the irony is not lost on us that Picasso and Miró preferred to title their works in their adopted language of French (one with which Picasso was not comfortable for quite some time). Most importantly, as I see it, the side-by-side exhibitions provided a window into how these two artists–the most important Spanish painters of the 20th century–redefined received ideas of artistic representation. Picasso of course, with his groundbreaking work from 1907 on (Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and the development of Cubism) and Miró with his increasingly reductive pictoglyphs (and his exploration of Surrealism).There have been a number of exhibitions and countless publications that have dealt with these themes, a cottage industry surrounding Picasso and his work; a sweeping, highly important exhibition devoted to context—2007’s Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí and more recently, last year’s Picasso, Miró, Dalí. Angry Young Men: the Birth of Modernity at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. This Miró exhibition amply demonstrates his ability to simplify or distill the essence of things, as it traverses his entire career. This reductive method may explain Miró’s influential career: his ability to effectively communicate his ideas to other artists and ultimately his popularity with the general public. The exhibition opens with a group of early pictures from 1917 until 1922—the so called detailist style—that owes much to ancient Catalan art, Fauvism, Expressionism and above all, an initial approach to Cubism. Extraordinary precision given to certain motifs provides a lucidity, all the while the paintings’ spatial organization is rigidly cubistic (flattened and schematized motifs, perspective tilted toward the viewer). This includes paintings of Mont-roig (“Red Mount”), a family retreat; a vegetable garden (in a 1918 painting now in the Moderna Museet, Stockholm); and his early masterpiece, The Farm (1921-22), a picture bought by none other than Hispanophile Ernest Hemingway and given by his widow to the National Gallery of Art (see above). In The Farm for example, Miró manages to convey the theatricality of a stage set littered with references to Cubism and its tropes, such as the flattened newspaper along with a watering can and pail in the foreground, everything a still life.

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Joan Miró Paysage Catalan (Le Chasseur), 1923-1924 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase, 1936 © 2012 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Just a few steps away we see Miró go from there to distillation of the simplified in two hugely important paintings, both of 1923-24: La terre labourée (The Tilled Earth) and Paysage Catalan (Le Chasseur) or Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). The effect is not jarring but relevatory. In the former, Miró has composed a hymn to his idealization of country life. With the political negation of Catalan culture with Dictator Primo Rivera in the 1920s, seemingly innocuous depictions of country life (Miró called Mont-roig “the most Catalonian place of all” in an interview in 1928)—of Catalan life—may be seen as implicitly political statements. And interestingly, these works were being painted, exhibited and published in Paris. Miró attained his ambition to be an “international Catalan” (Miro to a friend, 1920). The sentiments are both nationalistic and traditional, but the visual vocabulary is indeed international. Abstracted, simplified, all sense of perspective and spatial organization upended, figures are distilled to their essence, represented in abbreviated motifs, some flattened and schematized while others are simultaneously depicted modeled in acid arbitrary colors and given depth and volume. The effect is contradictory and, yes, surreal. These are his first surrealist paintings, seemingly irrational and weird, but truly representing complete thoughts, the life of the mind and the subconscious. One of the great services of this exhibition is the opportunity for the collective impact of these pictures to inform the eye. As a result, once in the galleries we are acclimated to looking, the paintings are readily legible. In The Hunter, the protagonist is to the far left, simplified to a stick figure with identifying ear, smoking pipe and beating heart (this painting was purchased by André Breton, the father of Surrealism, who soon after would call Miró, “the most ‘surrealist’ of us all.”). In the center foreground, underneath the fantastic sardine, is an organic red swirl of a shape, which must be a barretina—a Catalan peasant’s cap–although here it reads as an incipient bio-morphic shape, a Surrealist motif which interested Miró; Salvador Dalí, the third Catalan artistic genius of the age; and later artists like Yves Tanguy and Henry Moore.

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Joan Miró Head of a Catalan Peasant, 1925 oil on canvas Tate, London, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Purchased Jointly with Assistance from the Art Fund, the Friends of the Tate Gallery and the Knapping Fund, 1999 © 2012 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris The red barretina leads us to the next gallery and the year 1924. Here we have a near comprehensive treatment of his series of portraits of a Catalan peasant. The earliest of these, from the National Gallery’s own collection, is the ultimate reductive portrait, with two bisecting lines (based of couse on traditional draftsmanship, as an artist drawing a face begins with dividing the head into four quarters) and at the end of each of these “cardinal” points two eyes, a schematized beard and at top, the barretina. The other pictures from Madrid, London, Paris (here it is shaped like an artist’s palette, making the portrait autobiographical) and Stockholm are variants all displaying the identifying marker of the red cap. (Miró probably knew a slightly earlier painting, the striking portrait by Modernista artist Ramon Casas of Pere Romeu, 1897; private collection, Barcelona. Romeu looks directly at us, on his head the flaming red barretina. Romeu is most famously known as the proprietor of Els Quatre Gats, the Barcelona tavern cum gallery where he gave Picasso his first show.) With the rise of Fascism and the Spanish Civil War came the most explicit politically charged work of Miró, involving the further development of the Catalan peasant imagery. A design for a French stamp which later became a poster, Aidez L’Espagne (Help Spain) of 1937 shows an angry man shaking his upraised fist, wearing the barretina. Miro’s audiences would have understood the association of the barretina with the centuriesold symbol of liberty, the Phrygian cap. This political poster led to his monumental mural for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937, the Spanish Second Republic’s cry to the world in the midst of its civil war. Here these politically progressive forces gathered the best in avant-garde art. The pavilion was designed by Josep Lluis Sert: inside were Picasso’s Guernica and sculptures by Julio Gonzalez and Alexander Calder. In the Pavilion’s staircase, Miró created a searing image of Le Faucher (The Reaper) or The Catalan Peasant in Revolt, sickle in one hand and wearing a barretina, its top curled up like a fist. Miró, like his compatriots Picasso and Dalí, was keenly aware of received artistic tradition. His monumental peasant has its predecessors in the long line of country folk and farmers aggrandized and immortalized in painting from Poussin in the 17th century to Millet and Breton in the 19th. Miró’s mural—now lost—is represented in the Washington exhibition by a large photomural. The Catalan peasant as revered by Miró represents not only his search for identity but a link to his past, his culture, all the while living in a foreign capital. Similar concerns had also preoccupied Picasso, just ten years before.

Pablo Picasso Self-Portrait, Paris, late 1901 / early 1902 black chalk with watercolor on paper National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970 © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Follow

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One of the special pleasures afforded us at the National Gallery of Art—a mark of its status as one of the world’s great museums, and feasible at few other institutions—is the opportunity to see simultaneous multiple major exhibitions. I fondly recall the once-in-lifetime experience of viewing simultaneously Titian: Prince of Painters and Anthony van Dyck in 1990. These two monographic shows, independent projects in their own right, nevertheless allowed us to explore the connections between that towering genius of Venetian Renaissance painting and the 17th-century Flemish artist who perhaps best understood Titian’s legacy. Likewise, to see the Miró exhibition at the same time as Picasso’s Drawings, 18901921: Reinventing Tradition (closed the 6th May) was an amazing opportunity to see at once these two Spaniards re-inventing the depiction of the human figure. Picasso and Miró had a lengthy and respectful association; in fact, the former’s life-long friend and later secretary, Jaime Sabartés, was a cousin of Miró. Although both artists grew up in the artistic circles of Barcelona, Miró was twelve years younger. They did not become friends until February 1920, when significantly, Miró visited Picasso’s studio on the younger artist’s first trip to Paris. In fact, Picasso acknowledged the younger Miró’s importance and his impact on himself. Susan Grace Galassi, senior curator at the Frick Collection, which originated this show of sixty drawings, gives a clear, concise overview in the catalogue, following in the exhibition, of the first decades of Picasso’s production in drawings. Beginning with their sources in the Antique and Old Masters, she and co-curator Marilyn McCully limn his innovative draftsmanship ranging from redefining representation with Cubism to new approaches such as the papiers collés (paper collages) to works created after the First World War and its “call to order” in traditional media like pastel, his gorgeous neo-classical works.

Pablo Picasso Standing Nude, Paris, autumn 1909 watercolor on paper Private collection © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York In Picasso’s Drawings this redefinition of the representation of the human figure is expressed nowhere more eloquently than in the suite of drawings of the standing female nude, truly a Cubist trope. Marks and cross-hatching, pen-and-ink, broken planes and volumes, outline the “idea” of a classically posed nude model. These works of 1910-12 are further reductions of the more fulsome figure in the handsome watercolor of a standing female nude (see far left). Likewise, Miró begins the reduction of the figure to the esssential in his Catalan peasant head series a decade later.

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Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Even more to the point is a papier collé (more precisely, here a papier épinglé or pinned as opposed to pasted down) that Picasso made during one of his summer breaks from Paris in the Catalan countryside, at Céret outside Barcelona. The Spaniard (1913; private collection) shows a mustachioed man in a hat with a dot for his right eye with line connecting it to a drawn left eye, the face framed with a parallelogram. Ten years later, Miró in his Catalan peasant series would reduce these essentials even further. Another superb example of a papier collé in the exhibition was The Cup of Coffee made in Paris just before The Spaniard, with its tension between illusionism and flattened space, charcoal lines with cutout wallpapers and artist’s colored papers (see immediate left). In July 1936, General Franco led the Nationalists in armed conflict against the Spanish Republic. The pointed artistic response on the part of Spain’s artistic leadership—Picasso’s Guernica and Miro’s The Reaper among them—would be amply on display at the Spanish Pavilion a year later. However in that first month of the Civil War, Miró began a series of paintings on masonite which he gouged and spackled with tar and sand. These transgressive paintings would seem to echo the artist’s proclamation some years before, “I want to assassinate painting.” Dalí was captivated—as one might expect—by this sensationalist statement, saying in a 1928 essay, “The assassination of art, what a beautiful tribute!” The masonite paintings are certainly responses to the political situation and the extreme violence and uncertainty of the age. Interestingly, Miró had already violated the traditional rules ten years earlier, in the National Gallery’s own Catalan Peasant (1924; see above). It is there he first rebels against the traditional idea of painting on canvas by piercing the canvas twelve times, presaging Lucio Fontana’s challenge to the Western tradition and its concept of the illusion of reality contained on canvas.

Joan Miró Figures at Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails,1940 watercolor and gouache on paper Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963 © 2012 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris The penultimate moment in the Miró exhibition is an entire wall of the series the artist called the Constellations–paintings in watercolor on paper created in 1940 and 1941 (see above). With these surprising works we reach the apogée of Miro’s style, his personal vocabulary of simplified pictoglyphs of humans, birds and animals, celestial arrays, articulated in primary colors. The Constellations series was painted in the midst of war, indicated no doubt by the aggressive forms and dark night sky set with stars. Nevertheless the graceful, attenuated forms, extraterrestrial imagery and rich colors seem to foretell a happier time and a world interested in progress and the future. The paintings created a stir when exhibited first at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York in January 1945 and would influence the New York School (Miró meeting Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky, among others, on his first trip to the U.S. in 1947). The Washington exhibition ends with two galleries that condense Miró’s work from the last three decades of his life. This last section addresses the Miró Otro (Other Miró) exhibition of 1969—an anti-establishment political statement against his official 75th birthday celebration put on by Franco regime. As a part of Miró Otro , the artist, in a performance-like act, painted with his signature shorthand a long vista of glass windows inscribed with Catalan freedom verses (and months later then scraped it off). The result was very much what we would call street art, or graffiti art, today. This project, combined with Miro’s other large-scale public works, a number created for patrons in the United States beginning in the 1940s, provides the opportunity to consider his impact on public art and more largely, popular culture. As far away from Barcelona and Franco’s Spain as is Kansas, I myself grew up with a late Miro mural, an outdoor glass mosaic—Personages Oiseaux—commissioned for the façade of Wichita State University’s Ulrich Museum of Art in 1978 (see http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=ulrichmuseum&p=/Art/MiroProject). The current Miró exhibition is a worthy endeavor with a genuine point of view. It goes a long way to help explain Miró’s influence in high culture for his political and social sensibility and as well as his influence on popular culture. In the end, however, perhaps Miró’s work was too reductive. Thanks to focus and astute curatorial editing, the exhibition triumphs over the ubiquity and over-simplification present in much of Miro’s late work. Joan Miro’s legacy lives on in his large-scale public works and the impact that his entire output has had both in the popular imagination and on artists ranging from the Abstract Expressionists to Keith Haring and Walt Disney to the 1990s animated television series The Ren and Stimpy Show. As the artist Roy Lichtenstein—himself indebted to the popular culture doubtless shaped in part by Miró—said in 1983, the year Miró died, “There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Miró and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.” Miró’s impact on what we understand to be modern and popular culture’s place therein should not be underestimated. Share this: Like this:

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Miró, embajador en Washington La National Gallery acoge su primera retrospectiva del genio catalán | La exposición cierra pasó por Barcelona | El comisario dice que el público "entenderá" la diferencia que repres Cultura | 02/05/2012 - 00:40h FRANCESC PEIRÓN | WASHINGTON Corresponsal

Como si fuera el Barón Rampante, Joan Miró ha trepado por su escalera hasta alca National Gallery of Art de Washington. Aquí llega el Miró (1893-1983) que ya no es el "poeta naif". Este es un pintor político lienzo y la fantasía-, un defensor de esa Europa castigada por dos guerras y adalid d a las luchas fratricidas y la dictadura. Sus cuadros lucen barretinas, aunque dentro de un mensaje universal. "Has de ser u encerrado en casa carece de valor". Ahí están Mont-roig o Barcelona o Palma, y tam impresionó al sobrevolarlo de noche. A tiro de piedra de su retrospectiva se encuentra el Capitolio, la casa de los legislado de que el Viejo Continente está caduco y, en su decadencia, amenaza con provocar estadounidense. El genio catalán llega a capital del imperio moderno -del 6 de mayo al 12 de agostoayer en la presentación Harry Cooper, comisario en la National Gallery de la exposic de una de las Constel·lacions -L'escala de l'evasió- en las que Miró contrapuso su co De esta manera se cierra el ciclo virtuoso de esta demostración de talento, auspiciad de abril a septiembre del 2011 convocó a 300.000 personas, y la fundación barcelon desde octubre a este marzo citó a 236.000 admiradores. Cooper, convencido de que medallas del éxito para otros. "Me encontré con esta exposición, vino a mí", señaló. Recordó que Matthew Gale (Lo acudieron a él para pedirle obras de cara a organizar algo grande sobre Miró. Una de (1921), la que compró Hemingway y que con los años su hija donó a esta galería, es puerta de entrada a las diversas sala washingtonianas. "Si he de elegir una obra, elij comisario, quien, en lugar de prestar piezas, "pedí que me prestaran el show". En su

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por su ambigüedad. Sirve para subir, para escapar, y, además, para bajar, para poner los pies en la tierra retrospectiva comprometida, añade Cooper. Porque en una época en que España o mala prensa que eso conlleva, Miró irrumpe para explicar que existe otra narrativa fo los valores. Cooper insiste, además, en que, si los estadounidenses saben que hay una literatura Catalunya -muy presente, con el chef José Andrés presentando menús catalanes en retrospectiva les dejará las cosas claras. "Aquí se puede entender el contexto político y la singularidad, la exposición se explic "Miró es el mejor embajador", concluye Àlex Susanna, director adjunto del Institut Ra organización. "El que era percibido como un artista fuera de la historia -afirma- se mu comprometido al 100% con los acontecimientos y con su país. Desde este punto de principio a fin". El cierre a las 120 piezas lo pone Head (cabeza). Destaca un ojo, "el ojo que ve en la hombre mayor que quiere seguir mirando para que conste en acta.

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L'exposició Joan Miró: l'escala de l'evasió arriba a la National Gallery de Washington, després que més de mig milió de persones l'hagin vist prèviament a la Tate Modern de Londres i a la Fundació Miró de Barcelona. La mostra a Washington, que s'obre al públic diumenge i es tancarà el 12 d'agost, clou el periple d'aquesta exposició, centrada en el compromís social i polític del pintor.

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La versió americana de l'exposició inclou alguns canvis respecte a Londres i Barcelona, ja que les Una visitant fotografia amb la seva tauleta ‘La masia', a col·leccions privades americanes són especialment l'exposició de Miró a la Fundació de Barcelona. Ara, la riques en l'obra mironiana. Com recorda la directora pintura torna a Washington Foto: ANDREU PUIG. de la Fundació Miró, Rosa M. Malet, els Estats Units van reconèixer molt aviat l'obra del pintor barceloní i, a més, allà l'artista va tenir la difusió entusiasta del marxant i galerista Pierre Matisse. En aquest sentit, a Washington es veuran obres com Personnages dans la nuit (1942), Femme entendant de la musique (1945) o Femme et fillete devant le soleil (1946) que no es van incloure en les versions de Londres i Barcelona. En canvi, en el cas de La masia, la mostra a Washington suposa el retorn a casa de la pintura, ja que l'emblemàtica obra, que Ernst Hemingway va comprar a Miró a París, forma part de la col·lecció permanent de la National Gallery. La pintura va ingressar al museu el 1987, després que la vídua de Hemingway la llegués a la institució. Com ja va passar a la Tate Modern, l'exposició a Washington va acompanyada d'activitats complementàries en les quals ha col·laborat l'Institut Ramon Llull. A diferència de Londres, entre els actes programats s'ha prestat especial atenció a la música i el cinema, a petició de la mateixa National Gallery, segons ha explicat Àlex Susanna, director adjunt del Ramon Llull. Música i cinema

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Així, diumenge, el dia de la inauguració, es projectaran curts de Segundo de Chomón, acompanyats de música en viu, amb noves partitures creades expressament per acompanyar els films, basades en temes de la cultura catalana. Entre els altres concerts programats, destaquen el d'Ignasi Terraza i Ensemble, que el dia 17 de juny oferirà una sèrie d'interpretacions jazzístiques a partir de l'obra de Miró. La New York Opera Society oferirà el concert Sounds of Catalonia l'1 de juliol. A més, entre altres propostes, els dies 1 i 2 de juny tindrà lloc un simposi sobre l'obra de Miró amb experts catalans, balears i nord-americans.

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Joan Miró desembarca a Washington L'exposició Joan Miró. L'escala de l'evasió fa l'última parada a Washington després del pas per Londres i Barcelona. El Miró més polític i compromès amb Catalunya donarà peu a desenes d'activitats. NÚRIA FERRAGUTCASAS WASHINGTON. | Actualitzada el 02/05/2012 00:00

El retrat de Vicenç Nubiola fet per Joan Miró el 1917 dóna la benvinguda al visitant de l'exposició Joan Miró. L'escala de l'evasió que es podrà veure a la National Gallery of Art de Washington del 6 de maig al 12 d'agost. Miró pinta el seu amic i professor d'horticultura amb una camisa de coll obert de color vermell, indicador del seu radicalisme polític, en el sentit obrer, catalanista i noucentista, i ...

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El Miró más político visita Washington «La escalera de la evasión», que reúne 120 obras, llega a Estados Unidos tras su paso por Londres y Barcelona EMILI J. BLASCO / CORRESPONSAL EN WASHINGTON

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Otro peldaño en «La escalera de la evasión» de Joan Miró: la exposición que analiza el compromiso del artista con sus raíces catalanas y con sus convicciones ideológicas llega a la Galería Nacional de Wahington, después de haberse inaugurado en la Tate de Londres y luego haberse mostrado en la Fundación Miró de Barcelona. Con unas 120 obras, básicamente pinturas y trabajos en papel, es la mayor exposición monográfica realizada sobre Miró en la gran pinacoteca de la capital estadounidense. Entre otros complementos culturales que la acompañan está el menú especial concebido por el chef español José Andrés para el restaurante del museo, que los próximos meses pasa a llamarse «Garden Café Catalonia».

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A Joan Miró se le asocia con los puntos de colores y los trazos de apariencia infantil, pero la «La escalera de la evasión» presenta una faceta menos conocida: su implicación política, de la catalanidad al antifranquismo. La muestra, abierta hasta el 12 de agosto, descubre un aspecto vital de Miró: que fue una persona de principios, con un sentido de la ética y la justicia. Esa «tesis» es lo que más destaca Harry Cooper, comisario artístico de la exposición de Washington. «El título tiene una ambigüedad intencionada. Es algo que Miró utilizó muchas veces. Se podría interpretar como una escalera que el artista asciende para entrar en el mundo de la imaginación, lo que no necesariamente es una evasión, porque puede crear modelos de libertad que pueden ser usados en términos políticos, y por la que el artistas desciende para implicarse en este mundo», explicó Cooper.

El compromiso de Miró Para Alex Susanna, subdirector del Institut Ramon Llull, que patrocina la exposición, ésta «presenta a Miró de una manera diferente, intentando mostrar que para que los árboles crezcan tienen que estar bien fundados». La primera parte del recorrido documenta el enraizamiento de Miró en Cataluña y su compromiso con aspectos identitarios, muchos de ellos presentes en los lienzos, como en «La masía» (1921-1922), que perteneció a Ernest Hemingway, amigo del artista, y «Cabeza de payés catalán» (1925-1925). En la segunda parte, la exposición se ocupa de la preocupación de Miró por las tensiones en España y Europa. Es el único momento en que su grado de compromiso llega a ser propiamente militante, con su cartel «Aidez l'Espagne» (1937) para recoger fondos destinados a la República, y «El segador» (1937), su contribución al pabellón republicano en la Exposición Internacional de París, que los comisiarios de la Tate califican como «el Guernica de Miró». En el franquismo se centra precisamente la última parte, en la que piezas destacadas son una serie de cincuenta litografías de 1944, de tonos lúgubres y figuras angustiosas; «Mayo 1968», que capta la atmósfera de la rebelión de esos años, y el tríptico «La esperanza del condenado a muerte» (1974), que coincide con el ajusticiamiento de Salvador Puig Antich.

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1 Mayo 12 - Washington - Efe La muestra "Joan Miró: la escalera de la fuga", presentada a la prensa hoy, se adentrará en la obra del artista hasta el 12 de agosto, con una inusual agenda de actividades complementarias para divulgar la vida y el contexto histórico del surrealista catalán, y se suma a otra exposición del artista en cartel en el museo Kreeger de la capital estadounidense. El comisario de "Joan Miró: la escalera de la fuga", Harry Cooper, subrayó hoy a Efe que la exposición da un nuevo paso para explicar "cómo la guerra civil española y la historia de ese momento afectó a la carrera de Miró y a su obra". El director adjunto del Institut Ramon Llull -que promueve la cultura catalana-, Àlex Susanna, consideró que "la aportación clave es la relectura de Miró bajo un prisma a priori inesperado, como alguien mucho más vinculado a los episodios de la historia que se podía imaginar". "Cuando uno piensa en Miró, uno piensa en un artista naíf, que en todo momento consigue sustraerse a las coordenadas de espacio y tiempo, y en cambio aquí chocamos de bruces con un Miró que tiene un grado de compromiso increíble con la cultura, la lengua y las instituciones catalanas", subrayó Susanna. Después de que la retrospectiva pasara por la Tate Modern de Londres y la Fundació Joan Miró de Barcelona, la muestra de Washington acentúa más la faceta combativa de Miró, además de crear una nueva presentación formal. Por las dificultades de transportar los grandes lienzos al otro lado del Atlántico, hay unas cincuenta obras menos, pero también hay piezas no vistas en Europa, ya que la serie de las "Constelaciones" cuenta con creaciones procedentes de colecciones privadas americanas que no pudieron viajar a Londres ni a Barcelona. "Otra gran diferencia respecto a las anteriores es que cada museo es diferente y lo que intentamos aquí es narrar una historia muy clara, muy lineal sobre su trayectoria, sus viajes y su vida", especialmente para dar más contexto a un público a veces ajeno a los convulsos años treinta y cuarenta en Europa, destacó el comisario. Al entrar, la muestra pregunta al espectador estadounidense qué sabe de Miró, qué conoce más allá "de sus formas coloridas en rojo, azul y negro, sin gravedad". "Francamente, el público estadounidense no sabe mucho de Miró", admitió el comisario, que cree que el conocimiento de los amantes del arte en EE.UU. se reduce a su obra de los cuarenta, más surrealista. Por ello Cooper explica que la muestra ha cuidado especialmente los textos que acompañan las 120 obras para que el visitante no pierda detalle de las raíces culturales del artista y de la oscura historia europea que avanzó paralela a la producción de Joan Miró. La obra que da la bienvenida es "La granja", que concentra "los innumerables hilos que tejen su obra", según cuenta Susanna, y cierra la muestra "Cabeza", "el ojo del artista capaz de perforar la oscuridad de su tiempo", aunque no es de extrañar tampoco la aparición del entorno rural y de genuinos símbolos catalanes como la barretina. Otra prueba del afán divulgativo es un documental, con un año de trabajo a sus espaldas, que incluye imágenes inéditas en Estados Unidos, que se rodó en Barcelona, Mallorca, París y su pueblo natal, Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona), y que ofrece una "visión global de la historia del momento", apuntó uno de los responsables del audiovisual, Félix Monguilot. Se le sumarán visitas guiadas cada viernes en español, varias actividades vinculadas con Cataluña que se irán programando hasta agosto y una creación del mediático cocinero español José Andrés. El cocinero es responsable de adaptar, en paralelo a "Joan Miró: la escalera de la fuga", la carta de un restaurante de la National Gallery, que será renombrado como Garden Café Catalonia, con platos como la escalivada catalana y la sopa fría de cerezas. 05/01/19-53/12 • •

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| CULTURA | Exposición en Washington con más de 140 obras Jueves 03/05/2012. Actualizado 09:18h.

¿A qué sabe Joan Miró?

Uno de los platos del menú. | V. M. • • • • • • • • El chef José Andrés elabora un sofisticado menú en honor a la muestra • Desde el seis de mayo se podrá disfrutar en la National Gallery Victoria Morell | Washington DC Actualizado jueves 03/05/2012 04:00 horas Joan Miró vuelve a ser noticia en Washington D.C. Si el pasado abril, el Museo Kreeger organizaba una muestra donde presentaba; Sèrie Mallorca, Makimono y El Val d'Alosa, esta vez la noticia viene acompañada de un sabor exquisito, nada más y nada menos que de la mano de José Andrés. El chef asturiano, nombrado recientemente entre los cien personajes más influyentes del mundo por la revista Time, se encarga de poner sabor y guinda a un sofisticado menú elaborado en honor a la obra 'La escalera de la evasión' que, desde el seis de mayo, se podrá disfrutar en la National Gallery de Washington.

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La exposición revela el compromiso político de Miró a partir de más de 140 obras en las cuales se refleja la respuesta del artista ante uno de los períodos más turbulentos de la historia europea; las dos guerras mundiales, la Guerra Civil española, y la posterior dictadura franquista. La muestra se divide en tres grandes períodos que abarcan la problemática política y social de la época. La primera etapa representa el culto al paisaje catalán, centrándose en el pueblo de MontRoig del Camp donde Miró pasó largas temporadas en la masía familiar. Son obras destacables de este período; 'Cabeza de campesino catalán' , 'La Masía' , 'Mont-Roig, la iglesia y el pueblo' y 'La escalera de la evasión' pintura que da nombre a la exposición y que representa un símbolo característico en la creación del artista. "En la lucha actual, veo del lado fascista las fuerzas obsoletas, y del otro lado el pueblo cuyos inmensos recursos creadores darán a España un impulso que asombrará al mundo'. La segunda etapa, caracterizada por la influencia francesa, representa la etapa comprendida entre la Guerra Civil Española, la caída de Francia y la vida bajo el mandato franquista. El arte más reivindicativo puede observarse con obras como 'Aidez l'Espagne' que muestra el lado más comprometido del artista. Finalmente, y haciendo incapié en la influencia del expresionismo abstracto, el ciclo se cierra con los trabajos previos a la muerte del dictador. Destacan las obras 'Mural Painting I-II' y 'Fuegos artificiales-III'. Entre cuadros contestatarios, que evocan la cultura catalana, la figura de José Andrés se presenta como un complemento perfecto. El chef, que destaca por haber provocado una revolución dentro del ámbito gastronómico, acompaña la muestra con un suculento menú elaborado a partir de productos catalanes. Una fusión plástica y gastronómica donde los amantes de la cocina catalana podrán disfrutar de platos como 'l'empedrat de mongetes amb bacallà', 'canelons de Sant Esteve', 'escalivada' o 'samfaina'. El toque dulce, que viene acompañado de 'peres al vi amb gelat de vainilla' y 'crema catalana', promete no dejar indiferente el paladar. Finalmente, para acompañar el manjar, se ofrece una amplia selección de vinos españoles cuidadosamente seleccionados para la ocasión. La muestra, organizada por el Tate Modern de Londres, en colaboración con la Fundación Joan Miró de Barcelona, y en asociación con la National Gallery de Washington, podrá disfrutarse hasta el próximo mes de agosto donde el compromiso del artista con los acontecimientos históricos y la esencia de la cultura catalana quedarán manifestados. © 2012 Unidad Editorial Información General S.L.U.

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