Mayo de 1968 joan miro biography
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Miró: the rebellion of a pyrotechnic colorist
The step, a recurring motif used by Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1982), allowed him to connect the concrete with a personal universe made up of abstractions, inhabited by imaginary symbols and vivid colors. La escalera de la evasión, a work he painted in 1940 while in exile in a France gripped by fear because of the advancing Germans, also expresses the need for escape from a dark social and political reality.
Under the same title, The Ladder of Escape,the first big retrospective of the artist in London for 50 years investigates the artistic key of a genius of modern painting, as well as his commitment in one of the most turbulent times in European history.
Organized bygd the Tate Modern in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró de Barcelona, the exhibition opens to the public today, complete with an impressive collection of 150 paintings, drawings and sculptures that reflect the evolution of his formal characteristics and them
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May 68
Period of civil unrests in France
This article is about the 1968 civil unrest in France. For other events, see May 1968. For the Joan Miró painting, see May 1968 (Miró).
May 68 (French: Mai 68) refers to a period of civil unrest that occurred throughout France from May to June 1968. Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events the economy of France came to a halt.[2] The protests reached a point that made political leaders fear civil war or revolution; the national government briefly ceased to function after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to West Germany on the 29th. The protests are sometimes linked to similar movements around the same time worldwide[3] that inspired a generation of protest art in the form of songs, imaginative graffiti, posters, and slo
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Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early ’20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression called automatic writing, or automatism, which sought to release the unbridled imagination of the subconscious. Officially consecrated in Paris in 1924 with the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism bygd the poet and critic André Breton (1896–1966), Surrealism became an international intellectual and political movement. Breton, a trained psychiatrist, along with French poets Louis Aragon (1897–1982), Paul Éluard (1895–1952), and Philippe Soupault (1897–1990), were influenced by the psychological theories and dream studies of Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) and the political ideas of Karl Marx (1818–1883). Using Freudian methods of free association, their poetry and prose drew upon the private world of the mind, traditionally restricted bygd reason and societal limitations, to produce surprising, unexpected imagery. The cerebral and irrational tenets of Surreal