Abstract beauty

It is always a delight to visit the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, and it was especially so this week when the current exhibition explores the myriad connections between Miro and the United States, where he made a number of murals and public sculptures and his paintings can be seen at museums throughout the country. Miro had a life-long friendship with Alexander Calder, among other American artists, and he was a major source of inspiration for the American abstract expressionists of the postwar era. The exhibition is a marvelous display of abstract art, a remembrance of more hopeful times.