United Kingdom’s Tate Modern to Show Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape
November 26, 2010 by All Art News
Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured
LONDON (REUTERS).- Civil war was raging in Spain, bombs were exploding in Guernica, and Spanish artist Joan Miro, stranded in Paris, was painting “Still Life with Old Shoe,” where psychedelic colors spilled into everyday objects to create a scene of nightmare. Miro’s engagement with, and sometimes savage reaction to, the world around him underpins Tate Modern’s “Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape,” the first major exhibition of his work in London in almost 50 years. The title of the exhibition, [...]