1/6/2024 0 Comments Miro painter“I was attracted by a magnetic force to an object.” Miró used them as inspiration, but also in his work he placed objects. Objects were important for Miró, were key factors in his creative process. Prehistoric paintings of the Altamira cave.He also considered folk art as a universal language and therefore works with local artisans. His black lines reminiscent of lines of cave paintings. Miró saw the essence of human creativity. “My favorite painter schools are the oldest: the cave paintings, primitive art”. Miró was inspired by the prehistoric art, ethnic art, non-Western art, folk art and culture. “I read poetry, literature, listen to music as spiritual training, but I’m not an intellectual.” Inspiration There is no improvisation in his work but reflection before making, although the brush strokes appear spontaneously when he performs them. His method is intuitive. His brushstrokes seem simple, but experts say that Miró was one of the artists most difficult to forge. For Miró the subconscious center, is fundamental. So he uses in his work “unexpected” spots, splashes, and even “accidents” he regards as an enrichment on his canvas. He combines subtle color accents with vigorous brushstrokes to get freedom. His imagery, his methodĪs a painter he gives new meaning to space, the visual elements are floating in nothingness, without limitation, without any shadows or perspective. The devastating “spirit” of the war was the basis why he keeps distance from the artistic traditions and went searching for freedom and experimentation. For him, painting was more than easel, canvas and pigments, he breaks with traditional aesthetic ideas. “I want to murder painting,” Miro said at the end of the 20s. “Imperfectness inspires, nothing is what it seems and everything can be different.” He hated classicism and academic world. Not the way he works, but the way how to see things is important for Miró. He did not want anyone to change the order of his studio, for him it was a holy place. Miró is working on several canvases at a time in his studio, a place that almost no one may enter. ![]() “I always work and when I work more is when I’m not working,” he observes and then he thinks. This repertoire he will use all his life, the changes cover more form than in content. ![]() In the mid-20s, he has made all his thematic universe: women, birds, stars, eyes and feet. He worked in silence, observing, was a person in contact with the earth, the sea, with the cosmos. Now he makes the images with ease and simplicity, with thick lines in black color with splashes of paint on canvas he even works with burnt canvases. Since 1960, there is an evolution in his work. Under the Franco regime, he worked in a kind of internal exile in Spain while his abroad reputation as an artist of Spanish postwar abstraction grows. ![]() With the outbreak of World War II (1939-1945) and the invasion of France by the Nazis in 1940, Miró decided to return to Spain, though he is against the dictatorship. The Catalan artist expressed his support for the Spanish Republican government. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, he decided to stay in Paris. However, his relationship with surrealism was a love-hate, and he opted for more distance, but he accepted the principles of the surréaliste aesthetics. Miró moved to Paris, where he became friends with André Breton, Pablo Picasso and was a member of the surrealist movement, which helped him to reflect on his interest in the subconscious and dreamlike. In these works his Catalan identity is represented, its surrounding landscapes and traditions (canvas “La Masia”) with a very detailed and realistic handwriting. ![]() Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 -1983) was educated as a painter in Barcelona, where he was influenced in his early years by Fauvism (give importance to color, vivid, bright colors), Cubism (to eliminate the traditional perspective, all parts of the object be placed in the same plane) and Post-Impressionism. His work was his passion, it was all about mankind, and he felt deeply rooted. An orderly and discreet man in everyday life, was provocative in his art. Miró broke through the forms of his time. His paintings carry me to the Mediterranean, I feel at home there, it makes me feel happy. What attracts me in Miro’s work is the freshness, the poetry, the apparent simplicity of his images.
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