Following last year's exhibition at Tate Modern, a new show in Yorkshire displays his weird and witty sculptures in bronze
You wait 50 years for a Miró exhibition in Britain and then two come along at once. Last year Londoners had the chance to be dazzled by the Catalan surrealist's extraordinary breadth of imagination. Now, the weird and witty sculpture in bronze to which he turned in the final years of his career is on show among the soft green hills of Yorkshire. Here is an artist who for most of his 90 years created work with vision and inventiveness, and above all with an inexhaustible passion. Whether he was motivated only by the tragic politics of the 20th century, especially those of Catalonia and Spain, remains in dispute. But anyone who stood in Tate Modern surrounded by the huge triptychs he painted at the same time as he began working on his monumental sculpture will surely acknowledge that, in an era where it was repeatedly denied, his creativity was driven by his unfaltering urge to describe the importance of freedom.