born in the catalan city of barcelona in 1893, miro has remained close to the land and its people. but as a young man in paris, he joined th friends like max ernst and jean arp in the emerging surrealist movement of the 1920s. in his painting "the farm," miro's characteristic symbols and themes began to appear: serpentine shapes, checkerboard patterns, infinite space represented by the moon or a star. in 1922, he painted "the farmer's wife," the ancestress of countless female symbols that also became a continuing motif in miro's art. in 1924, his art broke free of gravitational constraints in the surrealistic world of "harlequin's carnival." over the years, he developed his own personal symbolism, and in the 1950s, the scale of his art grew with such works as a mural at harrd university and "the wall ofhe sun" for unesco in pas. as his work grew in size, miro continued what he termed "a process of simplification." he stated, "little by little, i have managed to reach a point at which i use no more than a small number of forms and colors." this process found a culminating expression

born in the catalan city of barcelona in 1893, miro has remained close to the land and its people. but as a young man in paris, he joined with friends like max ernst and jean arp in the emeing surrealist movement of the 1920s. in his painting "the farm," miro's characteristic symbols and themes began to appear: serpenne shapes, checkeoard patterns, finite space represented by the moon or a star. in 1922, he painted "the farmer's wife," the ancestress of countless female symbols that also became a continuing motif in miro's art. in 1924, his art broke free of gravitational constraints in theurrealtic world of "harleqn's carnival." over the years, he developed his own personal symbolism, and in the 1950s, the scal his art grew with such works as a mural at harvard university and "the wall ofhe sun" for unesco in pas. as his work grew in size, miro continued what he termed "a process of simplification." he stated, "little by little, i have managed to reach a point at which i use no more than a small number of forms and colors." this process found a culminating expression the maquette

to us is a sociologist from university in barcelona so carlos you are very in the city how did the but georgie of catalans view this upcoming vote. well it's a very conflicted situation right now the issue that's kind of overarching throughout the elections is sort of cattle on independence however there's also. a lot of sentiment against out of total mass by people that are not sort of. his parties i guess immediate ideological range i mean he just had a general strike against him on the fourteenth of november that also drew nearly a million people into the streets so the problem with this is that between the the nationalist sort of sentiment and the anti austerity sort of majority view their opposition to a lot of the mass is either confused or doesn't really have a referential point in the form of a political party to vote against him so he sort of has the strongest group out of all the electoral formation well this election was called two years early all for a failure to convince the spanish prime minister to ease the tax burden on catalonia but this is the most prosperous region spain hell exasperate

part of madrid's efforts to cripple the catalans independence argument the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancel and so we are european cities and no there's not such stress of that that the we would be out of the european union seven a half million of people suddenly enough how that would be more difficult actually to manage through the order of what is necessary to be out and it's not a consideration and we don't believe we're going to be out of the european union like a scotland i'm not going to be outside european union just because we are exercising universal rights as is the grosser grant of subtlety to nation let's talk about democracy here it's an audience of rich country we do have side g.d.p. of two hundred thousand million which is like dead my economy we have to understand that in the european economic and context we are a country of super rabbit we are not and if you should syria that country. the u.n. human rights commission plans to send a team of experts to bahrain next week amid growing concern the nation is slipping into protests chaos the main opposition party says it will resume program demonstrations des

part of madrid's efforts to cripple the catalans independence argument on the spanish state machinery and trying to fear campaign cancel and so we are european cities as no there's not such stress of that that we would be out of the european union some a half million us people suddenly you know how that would be more difficult actually to manage who to order what is necessary to be out and it's not a consideration and we don't believe we're going to be out of the european union like it's cutline i'm not going to be outside european union just because we are exercising universal rights as you know us are going to suffer to the nation we talk about democracy here it's an audience of rich country we do have g.d.p. of two hundred thousand million which is like a dead mike economy that we have to understand that in the european economic and context we are a country of super rabbit we are not that it should syria that country and more disunity in europe as a budget talks and with no result. european leaders have postponed a further debate until the new year after failing to work out a deal acceptable to all that story coming up in just a few minutes shor