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| The Farm (1921-2) |
Joan Miró i Ferrà (Barcelona, April 20, 1893 - Palma, December 25, 1983) began his path with Fauvist and Cubist shapes. He arrived to Paris in 1919, where he met the Dadaists, with which he shared the need for reinterpreting reality, going beyond painting and looking for new artistic languages for their expression. Miró used a language close to abstraction, where there's left some recognizable elements that give simbolic support for the subconscious messages. Some of his first paitings in Paris are The Farm (1921-2), The Tilled Field (1923-4) and Harlequin's carnival (1924-5) [Spanish], his best-known canvas.
From 1925, Miró starts using monochrome backgrounds of irregular textures, where he places his own universe, in which woman is a common topic. In 1928 he travels to The Netherlands and paints The Dutch Interior. His creative pattern is shaken by Spanish Civil War and World War II. Still Life with Old Shoe proves his protest against fascism's development.
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| Donna i Ocell (1983) |
Back to Spain in 1940, he finishes his series Constellations [Spanish] in Palma. These works present a organical world created by himself, with a huge identification between poetry and painting. After the World War II, Constellations are sent to New York and exhibit in 1945. From then on, recognition comes everywhere. His colours turns lighter and depiction is full of brightness.
Then he paints «slow paintings», carefully done and with light colours, but also the «spontaneous paintings», where Miró uses speed and new materials like cord and wire. He created small-format pictures and magnificent murals like those for the UNESCO. The Spanish painter also worked with sculptures, pottery or litography.
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