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Joan miro lithographs6/1/2023 The 40 plates reproduced here sample the pith of his lithographic production-a series produced in 1944, full of the eerie images and droll distortion he had sought on canvas for decades. The lithographic print medium suited and encouraged the artist's lifelong, often radical, obsession with stripping art to the marrow. Miró's line recalls Picasso's in clarity and power the Catalan's plastic aggressiveness led him, as it did his Andalusian friend, to bold, successful experiment and innovation in ceramics, sculpture and printmaking, especially lithography. They also enlarge the boundaries of lithographic technique as they simultaneously show Miró, now stripped of his brilliant colors, to be an equal master of black-and-white.Īs regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.-Miró ![]() Falling in a period of intense creative mingling of whimsy with the grotesque, these prints characterize an important juncture in Miró's career. These lithographs were executed shortly after finishing the famous constellation series of paintings (called by one critic the most intricate, most elaborately developed of all Miró's compositions), right around the time his mother died and he fired his first ceramics in collaboration with Artigas. Joan Mir Lithograph Plate 11 from 'Album 19,' 1961 10,000 5,500 ID w-7949 Joan Mir Lithograph Album 21, Pl10,000 5,000 ID w-7322 Joan Mir Lithograph Le Lezard Aux Plumes d'Or (The Lizard with Golden Feathers), Pl. Miró hallucinates on stone for these prints, filling them with monstrous beasts and one-eyed aliens adrift in a heaven of moons and stars and black nebulae, floating breasts and generative organs. It's never easy for me to talk about my painting, wrote Miró, since it is always born in a state of hallucination induced by some kind of shock, objective or subjective, for which I am not personally responsible in the least. Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan: uan mio 20 April 1893 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. The 40 plates reproduced here sample the pith of his lithographic production - a series produced in 1944, full of the eerie images and droll distortion he had sought on canvas for decades. Eerie, droll, technically brilliant, and aggressive.Īs regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche. I’m heading in new directions.”įind a collection of original Joan Miró art on 1stDibs.About the Book Forty important lithographic prints with line and composition comparable to the works of Miro's friend Picasso. Five years before that, he was quoted saying, “I painted these paintings in a frenzy, with real violence so that people will know that I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he remained in Paris in self-exile with his wife Pilar and daughter Dolores (b. ![]() Mirò continued to work and experiment until his death at the age of 90 in 1983. Traditional accounts indicate that Joan Miró was dividing his time between Paris and his homeland, in Montroig and Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in the early 1930s. The radical visual world Miró created with his expressive lines, signature symbols and biomorphic shapes influenced such American Abstract Expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Color Field painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. ![]() Female and avian forms, along with bright colors and the theme of Catalan pride, are recurring elements in his work. To this day, a number of his public artworks can be found there, including the 72-foot-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird), 1983. Miró’s identity is largely rooted in the city of his birth: Barcelona. ‘In terms of both the quality and quantity of his output, Joan Mir was one of the most important printmakers of the 20th century,’ says Murray Macaulay, Head of Prints at. Sold for 7,560 on 28 September 2022, Christie’s Online. Although often considered an early Surrealist because of his nonobjective imagery and evocation of the subconscious, he defies neat categorization. Joan Mir (1893-1983), Partie de campagne I. With his wide-ranging oeuvre, comprising strikingly original paintings, prints, ceramics, sculptures, metal engravings and murals, Catalan modernist Joan Miró was a critical force in moving 20th-century art toward complete abstraction.
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