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Thursday, April 20, 2006

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...is in honor of Joan Miro's birthday (born 1893). When UD was a teenager, her parents sent her to Barcelona for a summer, to stay with the family of a Catalan colleague of UD's father and to pick up some culture. Although this was so long ago that Franco still ruled, UD vividly remembers the impact of walking into the family's diningroom and seeing a huge Miro canvas taking up most of one wall.

"It's a pictorial history of our family," my father's colleague explained to me. His father had been a friend of Miro's.

On that same trip, UD met Antonio Tapies, an international man of mystery in black turtleneck and dark shades.
Posted at: 4/20/2006 08:23:00 AM