Word: miro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SPRING OF 1920 was a hard time for Joan Miro. The young Catalan had arrived in Paris from Spain in early 1919 when pre-war intellectual and artistic conceptions, like the European balance of power, had been swept away in blood and destruction of the World War. The Dada movement was the new wave in art--but only of the moment. And Miro, though he remained somewhat aloof from its influence, would come to be acknowledged as the formal master of the surrealist movement which grew as Dada disintegrated...
...first few years were difficult. Miro continued to paint farm scenes inspired by his native Spain that were realistic on the surface yet almost nightmarishly intense in spirit. Ernest Hemingway bought a huge work entitled "La Ferme," which Miro had toiled over for nine months in a studio with no heat and broken windows. Poverty was hardly romantic: Miro could only afford one lunch a week; on the other days he ate dried figs and chewed gum. For the "Carnaval d'Arlequin," one of his early masterpieces, he made many drawings...
...Joan Miro, even today, reflects the cultural confusion in which Surrealism had its roots. At the Rolly-Michaux gallery in Boston aquatints and lithographs of Miro's, mainly from the last ten years, are on exhibit. These works, despite their optimistically bright colors, their fantasy and their wit, despite the simplicity of the cut-out shapes that compose many of the pictures, express many of the original ideas that animated the Surrealist movement. There is a delight in the absurd and the childish here but, at the same time, you feel almost as if the artist was playing a rather...
...Miro has written, too, of the artist as a vessel: "Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin to paint, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself or suggests itself under my brush." This consciousness of his artistic role is completely at variance with the aesthetics of bourgeois art that Rene Magritte and Jean Scutenaire decried for lending art the characteristics of a superior activity, despite its removal from the real-life concerns and activity of most people. They criticized bourgeois individualism in art because "the middle-class artis claimsto express elevated sentiments relevant only...
...EXHIBITION in the gallery mostly use a combination of different etching techniques--aquatint, monotype, lithography, drypoint--are mostly large (approximately 40" by 28") and all expensive (ranging between $5000 and $7500). The techniques used in the creation of the pictures belie the apparent simplicity of some of the design. Miro adds further texture and richness to the design by using drypoint engraving, embossing and carborundum, a graining stone that makes heavy furry lines...