Joan miro full biography of king

Dutch Interior I Bleu II Personnage Woman and Bird Early Training. Mature Period. Late Period and Death. Influences and Connections. Useful Resources. Similar Art and Related Pages. What most of all interests me is the calligraphy of the tiles on a roof or that of a tree scanned leaf by leaf, branch by branch. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color.

Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes. But you can look at a picture for a week together and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. I saw things, and I jotted them down in a notebook.

I saw shapes on the ceiling.. But there is a Catalan saying that the procession marches inside you. What happens is inside". Read full biography. Read artistic legacy. Artwork Images. Personnage is shown to the right of the entrance. Influences on Artist. Marc Chagall. Vincent van Gogh. Wassily Kandinsky. Francis Picabia. Robert Motherwell.

Mark Rothko. Jackson Pollock. Arshile Gorky. Helen Frankenthaler. Alexander Calder. Abstract Expressionism. At this time he attended the first Dada demonstration in Paris. And finally, he moved to Paris, at an exciting time for young artists, who shared a supportive friendship. In , there was a big change in Miro's art, moving toward more sign-like forms i.

There was also a move toward a more overall composition, with The Harlequin's Carnival of This overall type of composition was later used by Jackson Pollock , Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and other modernists; rather than using a focal point such as that used in traditional painting, the composition encompassed the entire picture surface equally in all places.

His forms included cats, butterflies, mannequins, and Catalan peasants, and there was visual movement in his images. Surrealism began at this time, with the writer Andre Breton issuing the Surrealist Manifesto. Surrealism was supposed to be a fusion of reality and the dream, a sort-of "super" reality. Breton felt that Miro's work had an innocence and freedom about it.

Miro showed his work in Surrealist exhibitions, and was influenced especially by the Surrealist poets, who in their quest to tap the unconscious mind played games like the "exquisite corpse" in order to compose poems. Exquisite corpse was a technique where a dictionary was passed around in a group of poets, who would each choose a word randomly from it.

Whatever words came up, they would organize into a poem; this is how the phrase "exquisite corpse" was created. They also used the techniques of psychic automatism like free association , and "systematic derangement of senses. Miro painted about paintings from his dreams at this time; this was his most Surrealist period. He also illustrated Surrealist poems in collaborations with poets.

Another concept introduced by the Dadaists was the element of chance or accident in art. They would start with a splotch of fluid, then add to it to make a painting. Although he exhibited with the Surrealists, and was friends with many of them, he never submitted himself totally to their movement, and did not sign the Surrealist Manifesto, perhaps because of the radical political activities of the Surrealists, who were also very interested in the psychological ideas of Sigmund Freud and Jung.

In and , Miro painted figures derived from Catalan folk art. In he began painting images based on postcards of some Dutch interiors he had seen in Holland, by such painters as Jan Steen. The images he worked from were crowded with forms; he gradually simplified the forms and stripped the image down greatly, using geometric divisions and curving movements in the compositions.

At this time he moved further away from his points of departure, and began using unusual sources, such as a diesel motor, influenced by Surrealist thinking. From to he produced a number of collages; in Paris he had moved closer to Max Ernst, Rene Magritte , Paul Eluard and Jean Arp, so was influenced more by the work of these Surrealist painters and one poet.

Max Ernst in particular is known for his collages. In Surrealist art there were two tendencies: the representational imagery of Dali and Magritte, and the more abstracted images of Masson and Miro, though both were affected by Surrealist ideas of anti-logic and the subconscious; and Dali's and Magritte's images, though painted in a highly realistic fashion, depict objects and scenes which do not appear in the rational world, such as a train coming through a fireplace into a room, or melting clocks.

By , Miro had finished the first phase of his art-making, and he began to question and reappraise his work during the following 10 years, which were a struggle for him, financially and artistically. He began experimenting with materials - doing papiers colles and collages, using pictures of ordinary objects such as household utensils, machines, and real nails, string, etc.

This period of experimentation helped him to drop any lingering traditional practices, and eliminate usual habits of working. By using objects of no significance, artists are able to concentrate on the abstract qualities of objects, rather than their associated meanings or emotions, allowing for more formal freedom; the viewer also is less able to attach literal meanings to the images.

These "neutral" subjects with little aesthetic value or significance take the attention away from the subject matter and toward the forms and content in the image. After creating these collages, Miro would make a painting of the collage - transferring a flat collage image onto the equally flat canvas. These paintings from the collages are highly refined and strongly graphic images, and even though they contain no identifiable subject matter, the paintings do contain content, or meaning.

Although Miro is often characterized as an abstract painter, he himself considered that he was not - he even felt it an insult to call his work abstract, since he claimed that every form in his images was based on something in the external world, just simplified into his characteristic biomorphic shapes and curving lines. Many atrocities occurred during the Spanish Civil War, inflicted by Franco's fascist forces, as depicted by Picasso in his famous Guernica.

Although Miro was not a political artist, his forms during this time depict certain brutality, with distortions and garish color. In and '41, he began his well-known series of 22 Constellations, which consist of black dots representing stars on a white ground, using gouache and thinned oil on paper. These are very intricate works, with every part of the canvas activated.

The carefully placed dots create a 'jumping' or 'dancing' sense of movement, even a "connect the dots" feeling. In Mont-roig he produces his first three-dimensional pieces. He resolves to spend more time in Barcelona. He works on a series of 18 collages and then produces paintings based on them. He starts work on a series of 27 paintings on masonite.

He travels to Paris with his latest works, which are to be exhibited in New York. When the Spanish civil war breaks out, he decides to stay in Paris. His wife and daughter join him, and they remain in France until He lives and works in an apartment at 98 Boulevard Auguste Blanqui, Paris. He leaves Paris in the summer and rents a house in Varengeville-sur-Mer, Normandy, where the family remain until In January he starts work on a series of 23 gouaches, which he continues in Palma de Mallorca and completes in Mont-roig in September It comes to be known as the Constellations series.

Organisation and catalogue by James Johnson Sweeney. He continues working exclusively on paper. He continues working on paper, with the sole known exception of Painting with Art Nouveau Frame , from the Joan Prats collection. He produces his first ceramics, using materials from an unsuccessful firing in by Josep Llorens Artigas.

This marks the start of the first period of collaboration between them, which continues until Publication of the set of 50 lithographs known as the Barcelona Series , under the supervision of Joan Prats. He returns to painting on canvas, which he had barely touched since During his stay in New York he frequents Stanley W. Archived from the original on 22 October Stuart Gilbert.

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Joan miro full biography of king

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