Tapies' early work was strongly influenced by surrealist painters like Miro and Klee.

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Muhammad Miro, made prime minister a month ago, is the first from outside the top ranks of the ruling party.

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Works by Picasso and Miro also went under the hammer in the first of two weeks of major auctions in New York.

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Bashar's key partner has been Muhammad Mustafa Miro, the prime minister appointed a few months before June, the pioneer of anti-corruption and moderniser of Syria's antediluvian banking sector.

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Written by Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, and Carlo Bernard.

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The Croat vote was still too close to call, with incumbent Ivo Miro Jovic of the Croatian Democratic Union only marginally ahead of Zeljko Komsic of the opposition multi-ethnic Social Democratic Party.

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More conventional, but still huge galleries, roughly 50 feet square, are devoted to the Guggenheim's classic collection of modern art -- Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Leger, Miro -- a roll call of the names recent generations have grown up with.

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Once you descend into Cadaques, a town that drew Pablo Picasso (The Port at Cadaques, 1910), and Surrealist artists like Jean Miro and Marcel Duchamp, it is only a few more kilometres to Portlligat and the wondrous, white Salvador Dali House Museum (reservations are required).

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Housed in the exquisite Bryce-Frick mansion (built in 1900 by General Lloyd Bryce and purchased by Childs Frick, son of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, 19 years later), the charming museum hosts a variety of changing exhibitions featuring the likes of Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro and African-American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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