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Holed up in a centuries-old farmhouse outside Barcelona, Spanish Surrealist Painter-Sculptor Joan Miró and Potter Josep Llorens-Artigas three years ago embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay...
Often pieces were fired as many as eight times as Miró experimented with additional glazes, smashing all works that displeased him. "Sometimes accidents in baking would suggest new forms," Miró recounts. "What had started out to be a vegetable form would be distorted in a way that made me think of a face. I would add a nose and a bit here and there, and it would turn into a human figure . . . there was a constant metamorphosis...
...show this week in Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery. Among them are some surprisingly delightful forms, e.g., a small dancing figure whose facial features show up on the sole of its upraised foot, a 6-ft. 3-in. Palm Tree topped with a suitable bird with Miró hieroglyphics scrawled on the richly glazed bark, some bug-eyed figurines that look as if they had just swallowed the pits with the cherries. Most successful are those that, like the 20-in. bull's head, derive their texture and form from the fantastic rock shapes abounding in Catalonia. Mir...
Wiley turned on a vigorous campaign, handing out his card to people in the streets, flattering the ladies. Once, at the Leyse Aluminum Co. plant in Kewaunee, he genially seized a labor union leader, waltzed him around the floor, singing, "Du, Du, liegst mir im herzen," as factory workers chimed in with "Ja, ja, ja, ja." Davis, meanwhile, turned on an equally dynamic but better-financed campaign, got in his share of the stop-and-shake technique...
...artists. We decided to get prominent modern artists to design rugs which people could hang on the walls if they liked, or could actually put on the floor." The price for Léger's 7 ft. 7 in. by 3 ft. 9 in. #9 is $700, for Miró's Spanish Dancers $800; Picasso's thick-piled 6 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. 9 in. contribution costs an even...