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Porte de Vanves Flea Market Paris

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Parisian, Restaurantes

The Porte de Vanves Flea Market is a magnificent Parisian trace right in the city centre.

Amaya Restaurant London

Mónica Boixeda Food and Drink in London, Londoner, Only-Be

Amaya, with a Michelin star, is one of the best traditional Indian cuisine restaurants in London.

Joan Miró, the ladder of escape, in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Miró said “When I paint a painting, I fall in love with it; a love which rises from slow understanding”. This tireless, poetic, relentless, thorough and perfectionist artist, almost obsessive and never satisfied with what he does, changes and changes again. Contradictory although loyal to his search for the authentic. Born in Barcelona in 1893, he was made by his family to work initially in an office, although he dreamt of being a painter. Differently to another of the most international Spanish painters, Picasso, Miró was much more discreet and searched for anonymity. “Anonymity allows you to reach what is universal” he said. The exhibition has been organized together with the Tate Modern in London and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, and it holds over 150 works by the artist. ´The ladder of escape´ examines his broad career showing his tendency to contemplative isolation and the political commitment of the artist with the dark times he had to live in, to which he obviously wasn´t immune to. In the first rooms there are paintings such as ´Masia´ and ´Paisaje catalán´, which explore the ties with his native Catalonia, especially with Montroig, where his family had a farmhouse. That´s where Miró discovered and began to be aware that he wanted to be a painter, but not only a painter but a Catalan painter. After a first contact with foreign painting, he began with a style a tad ´fauve´ and cubist, but with a tremendous print from his native Catalonia, of the churches and frescos which he came across his country. Before leaving for Paris, he already had the chance to... read more