{"id":1914,"date":"2019-06-19T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2019-07-08T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:28:08","slug":"a-visit-to-birth-of-the-world-on-its-final-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=1914","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to Birth of the World on its Final Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MoMA closed on June 15 for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/about\/new-moma\">four-month renovation<\/a>.\u00a0 I had been planning to visit the Joan Mir\u00f3\u00a0exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/calendar\/exhibitions\/5031\">\u201cBirth of the World\u201d<\/a>, which I happily caught on the final day. This compact show of 60 paintings, drawings, sculptures and book illustrations, created between 1920 and the 1950s, demonstrates a sort of concise coming of age of this Spanish Catalan artist.\u00a0 Drawn mostly from MoMA\u2019s permanent collection, each artwork reflects a different moment in Mir\u00f3\u2019s evolution towards his signature style of dream like imagery, drawn over colorful backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>As many artists do, Mir\u00f3 tried on various artistic styles, eventually shedding them to form his own. Matisse can be seen in the whimsical book illustrations, Van Gogh in the hyper-colored portrait\u00a0of Enric Crist\u00f2fol Ricart,\u00a0Picasso in the fragmented features in his later portraiture.<\/p>\n<p>This all makes me wonder at the possibilities for cross-fertilization before the advent of the digital age, and marvel at the ease with which artists today can share and sample techniques and styles, trading visual ideas and bathing in each others\u2019 aesthetic spirit. No one makes art in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1917\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1917 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-1.23.41-PM-229x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-1.23.41-PM-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-1.23.41-PM-130x170.png 130w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-1.23.41-PM.png 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Mir\u00f3<br \/> Portrait of Mistress Mills in 1750<br \/> Paris, winter-spring 1929<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1916\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-1.23.27-PM-238x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-1.23.27-PM-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-1.23.27-PM-135x170.png 135w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-1.23.27-PM.png 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Mir\u00f3<br \/>Portrait of Enric Crist\u00f2fol Ricart<br \/>Barcelona, winter or early spring 1917<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoMA closed on June 15 for a four-month renovation.\u00a0 I had been planning to visit the Joan Mir\u00f3\u00a0exhibition \u201cBirth of the World\u201d, which I happily caught on the final day. This compact show of 60 paintings, drawings, sculptures and book illustrations, created between 1920 and the 1950s, demonstrates a sort of concise coming of age &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}