Joan Miró
Bio
Joan Miró (Spain, 1893 - 1983). His travels will shape him as a person and artist, Mont-roig, in the Baix Camp region, will be the counterpoint to the intellectual turmoil he lives in Paris in the twenties with the surrealist poets, and the stimulus of abstract expressionism that he discovers in New York in the forties. During the Second World War, Joan Miró settled in Palma de Mallorca. The link with the land and the interest in everyday objects and the natural environment will be the background of some of his technical and formal research. Miró flees from academicism, in a constant search for a global and pure work, not ascribed to any particular movement. Contained in the forms and in the public manifestations, it is through the plastic fact where Joan Miró shows his rebelliousness and a great sensibility for the political and social events that surround him. This contrast of forces will lead him to create a unique and personal language.
Statement
He was a painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist. In Paris he decided to do away with conventional painting methods, in 1924 he signed the Surrealist Manifesto and incorporated automatic children's forms and calligraphic signs into his work. His work becomes more and more abstract, simpler, more childish. He also reduces his palette to primary colors, to primary forms, and this is also seen in his sculptures and ceramics. His art steals from childhood, but also from popular culture, so there is a lot of symbolism (the bird, the stars, the female figure) that reflects his naive, happy and impetuous vision of the world.
Additional information
Edición de 75 ejemplares
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
