Show Notes

This week we're covering episode 5 of War in the Pocket: "Say it Ain't So, Bernie!" and Nina has research on the Spanish painter whose work must have inspired the mural on the wall outside Al's school!

Research: Joan Miró

• You can see visual aids comparing the art on the school wall in War in the Pocket to the works of Joan Miró on our website: gundampodcast.com
• Biographical information and details about his artistic career and some of his artworks from joan-miro.net, Fundació Joan Miró, theartstory.org, the Guggenheim, and Wikipedia. 
• Article about Miró and a 2008 exhibition of his works at MoMA: Schjeldahl, Peter. “Angry Young Man.” The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2008.
• _History and description of Miró's "The Reaper." _
• Photograph and history of "Alicia," a tile mural created by Joan Miró and Josep Lloréns Artigas, commissioned by the Guggenheim.
• Video created by MoMA for a 2019 Miró exhibition titled "How to See." In the video, "curator Anne Umland and the artist’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, examine the ways in which Miro worked to achieve a heightened state of awareness in which to paint."
• Article from Architectural Digest about the Cincinnati, Ohio Terrace Plaza Hotel, which is described as having "introduced modernism to the U.S." and is on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of the most endangered places in America. Top of the article has a beautiful color photo of the mural Miró painted for the hotel restaurant.
• 1951 article from The Harvard Crimson (university newspaper) about the arrival of the commissioned Miró mural for the graduate student center.
• about the Sol de Miró design, created for a 1983 Spanish tourism campaign. Check our website for an image of the poster in question.
• Article about how Miró's time in the USA and Japan influenced his art: Orlova, Ksenia. “Joan Miro. 1960s: In Search of a New Artistic Language, Close Contacts With the Cultures of the USA and Japan.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2020), 7 Sept. 2020, https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200907.025.
• _Details of an upcoming (as of Feb. 7, 2022) art exhibit at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan, titled "Joan Miró and Japan." _
• Pages about Takiguchi Shūzō (瀧口修造) from Wikipedia (English and Japanese), the Takiguchi Shūzō Archives at TAMA Art University, and the