Joan
Miro was born in 1893, near Barcelona. One
of the creative giants of 20th century art
he was able to create a magical world populated
by strange configurations in vivid colours.
In Paris he was drawn to surrealism principally
through its poetry..
Miro’s painting speaks with dreamlike images
and pure colours. It speaks like the people
that gaze at it. With the same words and
emotions, the same joys, the same violence,
far from cultural refinements.He intended
over time to familiarise us with his sign
language, to bring within the hidden messages
of his work, a recognition of his ordinary,
very human concerns.
He triumphed in using the canvas as a large
or small surface on which to make his statements.The
Catalan painter declared more than once
that he little enjoyed attacking a blank
canvas and that on the contrary he needed
to introduce stains and smudges, brush marks,
rubs and scratches.He attacks with his finger
in the ink, with a worn paintbrush in the
colour, rubbing, spitting, soiling, scratching,
burning and loving passionately.With these
means he forced inspiration, releasing himself
in the creative process.
“When I do lithos I lie on the floor and
put my hands in the ink. I’m covered in
it. I like being covered in it “. ( Miro
)
Miro followed the physical impulse to create,
to work in a state of passion and frenzy.
“The contact between the instrument and
matter produces a shock which is a living
thing and which will I think have repercussions
on the viewer “. ( Miro ) |
