Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà ...

Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of ... of Francisco Franco (1892-1975), Miro remained a staunch opponent of fascism. Whenever I thought of his art, his colorful, abstracted pictorial signs were always ...