A prime example of Miró's poetic rendering of everyday scenes, The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) (1923–4) shows the Catalan landscape reduced into flattened planes. In each of his works, Miró is highly selective of which formal features of the landscape to accentuate, and which to discard. Describing his 1925 painting The Birth of the World, Miró said 'Rather than setting out to paint something I began painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself under my brush. Most of his paintings began as automatic drawings in an attempt to escape the conventions of representation and the painting medium itself. Escaping ConventionĪs well as a Surrealist, Miró was also a leader among the associated artists in explorations of the subconscious, particularly with automatic drawing. This surreal, formally driven style features across paintings, drawings, etchings, ceramics and sculpture. In Joan Miró's art, the Catalan native, uses simple shapes and symbols to form a complex and novel visual grammar. He joined the Surrealists in 1924 and would later be described by lead surrealist André Breton as 'the most surrealist of us all'. In 1923, he began to transition to a visual language more explicitly composed of signs and increasingly separated from representation or reality. While sampling from various sources, these paintings remain something uniquely Miró's own, though with only a hint of the artist's distinct visual style to come.ĭuring the early stages of his career, Miró was attracted to the inclinations of subterfuge found in the Dada movement. During this period, he experimented with a range of influences including fauvism and cubism, and the works of Vincent van Gogh and Cézanne. However, after his studies and while working as a clerk, he contracted typhoid fever, and after a period of convalescence, decided to focus on art-making.įrom 1915 to 1919 Miró painted landscapes, portraits and nudes, largely at his family's home on Majorca. Born in Barcelona in 1893, Miró initially attended both business school and the Escola Superior d'Arts Industrials i Belles Arts in Barcelona.
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