<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/96380e0f-379a-4414-aba6-3b02f58e2148/3C5BE88B-A8C2-4347-BEC4-1EED9EC1BAE8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2008/11/joan-mir-wild-decade.html" href="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2008/11/joan-mir-wild-decade.html" style="font-size: 11px;">muzich.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2008/11/joan-mir-wild-decade.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/muzich.blogspot.com/img/60252081-86E5-411C-B3F6-1B6CC83A0777" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2008/11/joan-mir-wild-decade.html">Art devoted to Miró's most exuberantly creative decade, from 1927 to 1937, when Miró announced his intention to "assassinate painting." 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2008/11/joan-mir-wild-decade_3213.html">As the political situation worsened in Spain</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2008/11/joan-mir-wild-decade_3213.html">Miró </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2008/11/joan-mir-wild-decade_3213.html">grotesque portraits with swollen heads and deformed limbs</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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