![]() In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism.He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. Original offset exhibition poster by Joan Miro. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma in 1981. Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. Joan Miró i Ferrà ( 20 April 1893 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. ![]() 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. 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. 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. ![]() 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.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. The lithographic print medium suited and encouraged the artist's lifelong, often radical, obsession with stripping art to the marrow. ![]() MiróMiró'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. As 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.
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