#Miro painting series#

To achieve this effect he used either a small stick or even his fingertips directly, so that there is a certain irregularity but also liveliness about the dots. I’m heading in new directions.”įind a collection of original Joan Miró art on 1stDibs. There is a certain pointillism in Miro's paintings of the year 1954. 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. Mirò continued to work and experiment until his death at the age of 90 in 1983. 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.

With their fields of colour animated by semi-abstract symbols, they represented a marked departure from the figurative style of Mir’s earlier work. The importance of his carborundum prints, made between 19, was recognised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1970 with a dedicated exhibition. Painting, 1933 by Joan Miro Courtesy of Once Miro had assimilated the advances of the Surrealists, he created his own iconography, paying special attention to the human figure.

#Miro painting series#

Female and avian forms, along with bright colors and the theme of Catalan pride, are recurring elements in his work. Painting is one of a large series of works made by Mir between 19 which are often referred to as ‘automatic paintings’ (Simon Wilson, Surrealist Painting, London 1975, p.5), ‘dream paintings’ (Dupin 1962, p.157) or ‘peinture-poesie’ (poetry-painting) (Lanchner 1993, p.15). 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. Although often considered an early Surrealist because of his nonobjective imagery and evocation of the subconscious, he defies neat categorization.

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.