{"id":5674,"date":"2011-05-09T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:55:19","slug":"enjoying-the-art-of-miro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5674","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying the art of Miro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Vee and I spent a week in Barcelona some years ago, we enjoyed a visit to the art gallery featuring the work of the Catalan artist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joan_Mir%C3%B3\">Joan Miro<\/a>. Today we visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/\">Tate Modern<\/a> art gallery in London to see a special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/exhibitions\/joanmiro\/default.shtm\">Miro exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is an excellent exhibition, featuring a very large number of works covering all stages of Miro&#8217;s life and displayed in large rooms which enable good visibility of the art. One of the pieces I particularly loved was an early work called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.nouse.co.uk\/wp-content\/article_images\/body\/2011\/04\/miro561.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.nouse.co.uk\/2011\/04\/19\/joan-miro-the-ladder-of-escape\/&amp;usg=__pG6wSzeGdA7EJ4plBpQa5pLakZU=&amp;h=518&amp;w=771&amp;sz=38&amp;hl=en&amp;start=0&amp;sig2=mstk1qlT8wid2_y0AiU-Hw&amp;zoom=1&amp;tbnid=avlM6EWZ-gyYhM:&amp;tbnh=130&amp;tbnw=163&amp;ei=Iv_HTY6bCpCM-wbXqqHcAQ&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3DJoan%2BMiro%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enGB353GB355%26biw%3D992%26bih%3D563%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divnso&amp;itbs=1&amp;iact=hc&amp;vpx=677&amp;vpy=241&amp;dur=352&amp;hovh=184&amp;hovw=274&amp;tx=189&amp;ty=106&amp;page=1&amp;ndsp=19&amp;ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0\">&#8220;The Ladder Of Escape&#8221;<\/a>. We both admired the pieces from his Constellation series such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_j9VUmBswTWg\/TQgFdNAeUPI\/AAAAAAAAAIo\/KDz0MOMvTCk\/s1600\/Joan-Miro-art-gallery-Constellation-Awakening-at-Dawn.JPG&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/joanmiroartgallery.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/joan-miro-art-gallery-constellation.html&amp;usg=__r7bRDh-ze2wY_qnCdHHVJceV7Ck=&amp;h=714&amp;w=581&amp;sz=62&amp;hl=en&amp;start=19&amp;sig2=NhlmmN_M3FuJCMbnW_Ev8Q&amp;zoom=1&amp;tbnid=yt49tvcAZnBnGM:&amp;tbnh=125&amp;tbnw=105&amp;ei=s__HTbjZEsmYhQf19fyCBA&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3DJoan%2BMiro%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enGB353GB355%26biw%3D992%26bih%3D563%26tbm%3Disch0%2C449&amp;itbs=1&amp;iact=hc&amp;vpx=499&amp;vpy=223&amp;dur=9571&amp;hovh=249&amp;hovw=202&amp;tx=91&amp;ty=217&amp;page=2&amp;ndsp=18&amp;ved=1t:429,r:15,s:19&amp;biw=992&amp;bih=563\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Vee and I spent a week in Barcelona some years ago, we enjoyed a visit to the art gallery featuring the work of the Catalan artist Joan Miro. Today we visited Tate Modern art gallery in London to see a special Miro exhibition. It is an excellent exhibition, featuring a very large number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}