Exhibition review

摘要

So said Joan Miró, the Catalan painter who has a major retrospective at the Tate Modern, in an interview in 1959. This exhibition links his work skillfully with events that were occurring in Spain and Europe generally and demonstrates how the suppression of Catalan autonomy, the Spanish civil war, the rise of Franco and Fascism, even the student riots of 1968 are influential on the surreal abstractism of Miró’s painting.